Enjoyment of wine is not just a matter of knowing what you like - it is always enhanced by knowledge of what you are drinking. This text presents a distillation of all the essential information for wine-lovers and would-be wine-lovers, drawn from the author's "Oxford Companion to Wine". The text contains over 2350 fully cross-referenced entries on all aspects of wine including regions, tasting terms, labelling, health, grape varieties, and faults.