"The Wine Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the wines available in the New Zealand marketplace... [It] introduces differences between wines, taste characteristics and the basics of winemaking, and outlines drinking and cellaring wine in a New Zealand context. Coverage of individual wines of all the major wine-producing nations is the book's strength, and a focus on winemaking in the Pacific - New Zealand, Australia and California - reflects this region's promise and will be of particular revelance to the New Zealand reader"--Back cover.