Publisher's Synopsis
This is a vintage collection of fascinating facts and legends. Its 23 chapters will entertain, inform and educate everyone from the humblest wine consumer to the loftiest expert. Amongst the most colourful chapters are 'Wine Celebrities' including Shane Warne, Cliff Richard, Sam Neill and Gerard Depardieu, and Wine and Animals with Bears Mountain Lions and Moose, an Exploding Bunny and Stoffel the Wine Tasting Dog. There is also a fascinating chapter on 'Wine and Art' featuring Toulouse Lautrec, and Almost-Free Rembrandt and A Naked Lady who was hidden for 19 years, plus informative mini-chapters on Aboriginal and Maori wine names and much more.