The New Connoisseurs&39 Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries [Paperback]

For this powerful successor to his best-selling guide to California wine, Charles E. Olken has joined forces with Joseph Furstenthal to craft The New Connoisseurs Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries. An encyclopedia, atlas, and buying guide combined in one comprehensive, authoritative work, this new guide delivers information and guidance that is not available in any other place. From first page to last, it is geared towards a wide range of consumers, yet also offers the depth and detail that made its predecessor one of the most frequently referenced works by wine educators and industry insiders. Now organized geographically into eight wine regions, the guide has been completely rewritten and expanded to provide the most current information on the states evolving wine industryits history, grapes, winemaking, terminology, geography, and leading wineries.

Charles E. Olkenis the publisher and editor of the monthly Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine, described by theLos Angeles Timesas the oldest, most prestigious reviewer of California wines. Joseph Furstenthalis a writer, wine collector, and marketing specialist.

I have depended on Charles Olken'sConnoisseurs' Guide to California Winefor more than 35 years. This new Guidebook is a perfect complement. No other book comes close to its thoroughness, accuracy, and usefulness. It is a must for travelers in California's wine country. Charles L. Sullivan, author ofZinfandel

Olken's perspective on California wines is unmatched: he spans the landscape from the postwar pioneers to the newest garagistes, and wine criticism from before Parker to the age of blogs. This new guidebook is informed by his 35 years of careful, candid, and comprehensive attention to California wine. John Winthrop Haeger, author ofPacific Pinot Noir

An essential reference book for those interested in America's most important producer of wine.