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The Wines of Burgundy

By: C Coates
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520250508
ISBN-13: 9780520250505
Released: 02 Apr 2008
RRP: £35.00
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What a rip-off - By: Winenut, 21 May 2008
The previous reviewer has pointed out the major flaws in this book but was still far too lenient. The second half of the book is taken up with a huge collection of tasting notes that are pretty much useless to the vast number of people who will buy this book. As anyone who buys Burgundy knows, the only time that a wine is widely available is when it's first released - 'widely' being a relative term as most wines are produced in limited quantities. So what use is a tasting note for a 15-year-old wine? It isn't going to help me decide which wines to buy as the wine is unlikely to be available anywhere & it's pretty damn unlikely that I have any of it in my collection - apart from anything else, the wines included are from Burgundy's higher echelons (grand & 1er cru) & would have been out of my reach anyway. Removing these notes would have either brought the price of the book down considerably or enabled Coates to expand the producer profiles, which are, in many cases, mere stubs with little useful information.

Buy either Serena Sutcliffe's or Anthony Hanson's books - the price to useful information ratios on these two are considerably better.
Clive Coates-The wines of Burgundy - By: Mr. A. N. Matthews, 05 May 2008
I bought this book because Clive Coates perhaps more than any wine writer has an in depth knowledge of Burgundy. The 1997 volume was outstanding but this rewrite is not as good. It would have been perhaps more helpful to have the domaine profiles of the last volume expanded & updated rather than having copious tasting notes of old vintages many of which I am never going to experience.
The double columns on each page make for difficult reading.
The maps are outstanding.