In this stunning new addition to the Assouline Ultimate Collection, Enrico Bernardo, the world’s best sommelier, imagines the perfect cellar filled with the most exceptional wines of the twentieth The Impossible Collection of Wine . Weighing the virtues of rarity, terroir, taste, and historical mystique, Bernardo’s is a list any connoisseur could only dream of. In these pages, Bernardo celebrates exquisite vintages from around the globe—from the 1928 Krug Collection Champagne to the 1951 Penfolds Grange Bin 95 to the 1973 Stag’s Leap Estate SLV—inviting the reader on journey through history to savor an impossible collection.
Widely regarded as the world’s greatest sommelier, Enrico Bernardo creates the fantasy version of the ultimate cellar in a book that catalogues his favorite vintages from around the world (a 1928 Krug, 1970 Vega Sicilia Unico Gran Reserva, a 1989 Gaja Barbaresco). It is, as the title indicates, an impossible collection.