Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs – book review

Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs 
Ian D’Agata 
Published by University of California Press 
ISBN 9780520290754 
$50, £41

The Plain English Campaign is a grassroots pressure group set up in 1979 to advocate plain-language communication. They’ve had a powerful impact on big and small organisations and been a great force for good. Their point is that whatever service you are providing, people should understand precisely what you are telling them.

I found myself longing for a Plain English Campaign intervention as I waded through part one of Italy’s Native Wine...