Is it naff to take a bottle of wine to a dinner party? Are red wine and cheese really a match? Should you stick to the house plonk in restaurants? What's so funny about wine? Is it the fact that we take it so seriously? This title presents some of the quaint histories and dark secrets of many of the world's most famous wines.
Contains over a thousand cocktail recipes in a mix of hard facts and pure whimsy.
Over 1,500 recipes, with revealing anecdotes about many of the cocktails, and generous sprinklings of apposite quotations, risque jokes and little curiosities.
Top 5000 title UK's biggest-selling wine-buying guide. 2000 separate tastings to identify the best wines on offer this year. 70% of UK wine is bought in supermarkets so that's where we focus our tasting. With it's own website at www.askdaisy.net/bestwinesuk/