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George Saintsbury

Notes on a Cellar-Book

Edited and Annotated by Thomas Pinney

$29.95, £17.95 hardcover

978-0-520-25352-0

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360 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 26 b/w photographs
October 2008, Available worldwide
Categories: Wine & Viticulture; History; Wine; Viticulture

Description | About the Author

Since its first publication in 1920, George Saintsbury's classic Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of the greatest tributes to drink and drinking in the literature of wine. A collection of tasting notes, menus, and robust opinions, the work is filled with anecdotes and recollections of wines and spirits consumed—from the heights of Romanée-Conti to the simple pleasures of beer, flip, and mum. Thomas Pinney brings this unique work alive for contemporary audiences by providing the keys to a full understanding of Notes on a Cellar-Book in a new edition that includes explanatory endnotes, an essay on the book's legacy, and additional articles on wine by Saintsbury.

George Saintsbury (1845-1933) was a journalist, reviewer, critic, editor, and Professor of Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Thomas Pinney is Professor of English Emeritus at Pomona College. Among other books, he is author of A History of Wine in America (in two volumes from UC Press).