The Wines of Spain

Rating:
Summary: The perfect companion
Review: A unique guide that is designed for the wine drinker rather than the coffee table.Over 2,000 Spanish wines are described extremely accurately judging by those I've tasted.(While I would agree everyone has their own palate I would also argue that everyone can distinguish a good wine from an average one.)In short if the author says the wine is 'good' or 'recommended' then that is the case.Additionally,a useful indication of price and value is given.
The introduction states that 'these are exciting times to be studying and drinking Spanish wines' and this book is the perfect companion.

Rating:
Summary: disappointing
Review: This is little more than a long listing of producers. Very little detail is furnished about regions or producers. As an indication of this book's user-unfriendlyness, there is not even an overall map of Spain showing the locations of the wine-producing regions. Rather, hand-drawn rough sketches of small portions of maps of small areas are presented without any clue of how they relate to one another. This is just one of several manifestations of extremely low general production values. The disappointing thing is that the author did seem to do his homework, and in many cases can identify the better producers in a region or the best offering from a producer even when this information is quite obscure. ...