1953 What About Wine?

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original cloth binding.

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

This volume is a first edition.

This work is a comprehensive guide to wine and oenology, written in the author's distinctive table-talk style, with wood engravings by David Gentleman, including a woodcut frontispiece, with numerous half-tone illustrations throughout.

André L. Simon (1877–1970) French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about oenology. He was instrumental in founding the Wine & Food Society and authored numerous works on wine and food pairing. Hugh Johnson describes him as "the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years".