![]() ![]() “The number of people who love wine and want to learn about it. Ninety percent of the book is either completely new or entirely rewritten.”Ģ What has been the biggest change since you wrote the first edition? And Canada has moved into position as one of the top new world wine regions. The quality of wine coming from the Guadalupe Valley of Mexico is also surprising. I recently visited Ningxia, the Napa Valley of China, on the edge of the Gobi Desert the wines were very good. But many other things have changed–the rise of China, for example. “Some things in the world of wine don’t change a lot - what makes Bordeaux Bordeaux, for example. ![]() The second edition brings the “Wine Bible” up to date, with coverage of everything from international grape-growing regions to food pairings. So MacNeil created her own reference work. The Napa Valley-based wine expert began writing the original guide in 1990, when she couldn’t find information about wine’s cultural, historic and gastronomic aspects all in one place. What weighs in at 1.7 pounds and 996 pages, with a red-wine-stained cover? The second edition of Karen MacNeil’s “The Wine Bible,” a just-revised edition of her 15-year-old comprehensive guide to the wine world. ![]()
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