Wine books of the year
Rounding up some of the best books reviewed on worldoffinewine.com in 2025.
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An invitation to experience wonder
Pascaline Lepeltier's unique book is slow-going but essential.
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There’s no taste like stone
Alex Maltman's latest, essential book challenges fuzzy thinking about minerals, soils, and their role in wine.
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A stimulating disquisition
A new book offers an inspiring study of the relations between drinking and thinking.
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Cynical in the best sense
Sunny Hodge's book is a carefully researched antidote to much of the noise and nonsense around wine.
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Well-researched and down to earth:Â A free-spirited, free-form buffet
A fine literary addition to the ever-growing Noble Rot publishing and restaurant empire.
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A compact, authoritative, enticing introduction to the wines of the Loire
David Schildknecht reviews Wines of the Loire Valley by Beverley Blanning MW. Jacqueline Friedrich published her lovely Wine and Food…
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A rewarding series of literary and visual portraits set in the annual cycle of the vine
Sophie Menin and Bob Chaplin’s book tells a global viticultural story in evocative words and pictures.
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