Leith's Guide to Wine

by Prue Leith (Author), Richard Harvey (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $21.18

  A comprehensive wine-buying and winedrinking companion. It covers wine production, tasting, buying, storing and serving. There are chapters on wines from every part of the world including France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Eastern Europe, South America and Australia together with sections on champagne, sherry, port and other fortified wine. Designed for everyone from the interested novice to the wine buff, this guide is illustrated with maps, diagrams and colour photographs. Prue Leith is the founder and leading director of the prestigious Leith's restaurant, Leith's School of Food and Wine and Leith's Good Food. She is the author of many cookbooks including The Cook's Handbook and, with Caroline Waldegrave, Leith's Cookery Course , Leith's Cookery Bible , and Leith's Complete Christmas . Richard Harvey became a Master of Wine in 1982 and he runs his own wine business in Dorset and France. He has been in charge of the wine courses at Leith's School of Food and Wine for the last eight years.