Wine - A Way of Life

This is the story of Steven Spurrier's rich and eventful life in and around wine. From being inspired by a glass of Cockburn 1908 Vintage Port at thirteen years old, Steven Spurrier joined London's oldest wine merchant in 1964; he bought a wine shop in Paris ("Your wine merchant speaks English"), and organised what became known as the Judgement of Paris, when, at a blind tasting, nine of the best tasters in France placed Californian wines, both white and red, above the greatest French wines, changing the wine world forever. Steven Spurrier was 2017 Decanter Man of the Year, a title generally reserved for the greatest of the world's wine makers, and is currently President of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. He has recently planted a vineyard in Dorset to produce sparkling wine.

• Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing
• Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
• The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
• Flawless: Understanding Faults in Wine
• The Oxford Companion to Wine (Oxford Companions)
• Wine Simple: A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier
• Vignette: Stories Of Life And Wine In 100 Bottles
• What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime
• Somm 3
• Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine