A revised version of a work first published in 1989, this is the best and most practical guide to cellaring wine. It talks you through the cellaring proposition from as many angles as you can imagine: the motivation for cellaring, the sorts of wines to buy, what they go through as they age, how to construct and maintain the cellar and, ultimately, how to reap the rewards through drinking and selling. There’s a wealth of ancilliary information which is really essential stuff for the with-it wine enthusiast. Listings of recommended books, magazines, websites, auctioneers, societies, merchants and vintage charts, plus the latest Langton’s Classification of Distinguished Australian Wines. Because he’s been buying great quantities of great wine for several decades, has amassed and consumed significant proportions of the world’s best wines, Halliday brings a rich and original perspective to the issue of cellaring. If you never, ever buy another wine book, this will certainly be the most timeless collection of practical advice on wine and its enjoyment you could ever receive.
