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Published by Academie du Vin Library in 2020, hardback, 288 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis suits readers who like wine history told from the inside, and anyone curious about the Judgement of Paris beyond the film version. 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Thierry Germain and his team make some of the Loire's most admired wines there, working biodynamically, and the photographer follows both the plant cycle and the winemaker's year through the seasons. The result is a visual record of the work, not a technical manual: pruning, flowering, harvest, cellar. The images carry the narrative, and they are printed at a size that does them justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits people who already know Germain's wines and want to see the place, and anyone who likes documentary photography of working landscapes. 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Walters travels the region, digs out a history the big houses have not been keen to publicise, and takes apart a number of myths that still get repeated about how the wine is made and where its quality comes from. Andrew Jefford called it the least frothy book on the subject he had read. Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Awards in 2017 and winner of the 2018 Fortnum \u0026amp; Mason Debut Drink Book Award. Hardcover, 240 pages, Quiller Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits anyone who drinks Champagne and wants to understand why grower bottles taste different, and it reads as travel writing as much as reference. 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This hardcover edition from Ex Vinum publishing carries Robert Walters' fully annotated translation alongside the original French, with 120 footnotes, more than 60 retouched photographs and illustrations, a foreword by the French pruning consultant Francois Dal and an extended introduction placing the work in historical and modern context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for growers, viticulturists and anyone who prunes vines for a living, and for readers interested in how a lost piece of viticultural science came back into practice. 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There are 45 full-colour maps, six of them new, including plot-by-plot holdings within individual grand and premier cru vineyards. Morris wrote the first edition while running Burgundy buying at Berry Bros; he now works as a critic and lives in Burgundy full-time, which shows in the level of judgement here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone buying Burgundy with intent needs this on the desk, and it suits both the reader working village by village and the drinker checking a producer before committing. 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