Two of the best wine books

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing a lot about drink books. I'm kicking things off with a look at two of my all time favourites by Kermit Lynch and Patrick Matthews.

It is received opinion among publishers that wine books don’t sell. Don’t even try to suggest a book with the word wine in the title to a publisher – she will recoil as if from a corked claret (not something that would happen nowadays as most publishing lunches are dry). The Faber wine list is no more and the once mighty Mitchell Beazley list is a shado…