The History of Wine in 100 Bottles
From Bacchus to Bordeaux and beyond
Oz Clarke
Pavilion Books
£20, $24.95
One hundred chronologically ordered two-page chapters; eight thousand and fourteen years; the evolution of wine from hollowed-out tree trunks to fraud worth $48.4 million. It's like trying to draw a map of the world on the head of a pin, and possibly only Oz Clarke is mad, fearless and irreverent enough to try.
Clarke addresses the noble (Tutankhamen, Louis Pasteur, Dom Pérignon, £105,000 for...
