The New France: A Complete Guide to Contemporary French Wine

by Andrew Jefford, Jason Lowe (Photographer)

Award-winning, groundbreaking, breathtakingly exhaustive, and authoritative, this guide to French wine covers all of the country’s fourteen wine regions, including full-color maps for each one—all with unrivalled cartographic detail. Producer listings are an important feature, with up-to-date research on terroir and the appellation contrôlée system and their effects on the wines of each region.

Winner of the André Simon Drink Book of the Year 2002, the Prix du Lanson Wine Book of the Year 2003, and the Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year 2003.

Genres: Wine, France, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published October 17, 2002

Reviews

[Marty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative, varied, and extremely in-depth coverage of the current (or 4 years-ago) state of French wine. Jefford writes well, if not a touch too lofty for my taste. The winemaker profiles provide the most insight in this book, you learn what drives some of the country's leading vignerons. Good producer profiles, although Jefford tends to stick with the most "known" producers and their tete de cuvees, forgetting that the lowly reader of this book may never be able to afford those. That being said, this is a must-read for any wine enthusiast who wants some depth in understanding, but who already has a fairly expansive knowledge of the wine world. I'd place this book a somewhat distant second to my favorite book on French wine, "The Wines of France" by Jacqueline Friedrich.

[Justin Cormack · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best wine books. Jefford writes lucidly and persuasively.