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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What’s most impressive is that Gibb has managed to maintain a lively, well-paced, humorous, deliciously gossipy, slyly acerbic narrative. While she’s got a good grip on the events and is adept at teasing out the threads that come together to shape the course of history, it’s her ability to bring people to life that underpins her storytelling." * JancisRobinson.com *
"Takes the reader on a highly entertaining tour of wine fraud from ancient times up to the present day. . . . The book is full of brilliant details." * The Spectator UK *
"[An] entertaining gallop through wine fraud down the ages." * Daily Mail *
"Triumphs in the way in which it combines a history of wine and the wine trade with some very detailed and well-researched examples of cunning crookery. Gibb writes well and can weave together convincing and authoritative tales of wine concoctions that would even make the three witches in Macbeth opt to go on the wagon." * Business Day *
"The British master of wine Rebecca Gibb has great fun picking through the skulduggery in an entertaining read that romps around the vineyards of the world." - Best Cookbooks and Food Writing of 2023 * The Times *
"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences." - Best Wine Books of 2023 * The New York Times *
"What a brilliant idea this is for a book. . . . No wine lover should be without a copy of Vintage Crime, though in future it might make you sniff a little more suspiciously when handed a glass of fine wine." - Best Wine Books for Christmas * Club Oenologique *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: A Story as Old as Wine Itself
1. When in Rome
2. Dying for a Drink
3. An Enlightened Drinker?
4. I Predict a Riot
5. Appellation Nation
6. Winegate
7. You Say “Prost,” I Say “Frost”!
8. Indiana Jones and the Glass Crusade
9. A Message to You, Rudy
10. The Last Drop
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
