Michael Broadbent's Pocket Vintage Wine Companion: Over Fifty Years of Tasting over Three Centuries of Wine - Hardcover

An updated pocket version of Michael Broadbent’s classic and award-winning Vintage Wine, his magnum opus published in 2002
 "Broadbent can suggest, in a line or two, whether a wine is pleasurable, balanced and worth cellaring."—Stephen Brook, Decanter

"The fine art of writing intelligent tasting notes has no greater master than the incomparable Michael Broadbent."—Robert M Parker, Jr.

"The doyen of wine tasters."—Simon Hoggart, The Guardian 

--The pick of Michael Broadbent’s positive recommendations, now in a handy pocket format
--Includes Michael Broadbent’s all time favourite wines, as well as his top wines for each vintage.
--Single-minded emphasis on the great classic wine regions, with notes on over 140 vintages of Château Lafite, 140 vintages of Château Yquem and over 40 vintages of Montrachet [to be amended later on]
--Special, easy-to-use section on vintage information
--Simple, 5-star rating system for both vintages and individual wines--Contains notes on hundreds of new wines tasted since the publication of Vintage Wine in 2002
--All the vintage ratings brought together in one section for ease of use
--Full index of wines for quick reference

Michael Broadbent almost certainly knows more about fine wine than anyone else in the world. In 2002 he celebrated the completion of half a century in the wine trade and the publication of Vintage Wine, his first major book for more than a decade and his most important work to date. Building on his earlier works but concentrating on the world’s great classic wine regions, it was both the ultimate fine wine reference book and a remarkable record of a lifelong passion.

Pocket Vintage Wine is an updated pocket version of this classic and award-winning book and presents Michael Broadbent’s tasting notes in a format you can carry with you, so that whether travelling, buying at auction or dining out you can have his unrivalled expertise at your fingertips. Here is the cream of Michael’s notes from Vintage Wine, along with hundreds of new notes on the best wines Michael has tasted since Vintage Wine was published in 2002.