Top Prize for Australian Wine Companion

by Andrew Barrow (Subscribe to Andrew Barrow's posts)
Posted Apr 5th 2006 6:15PM
Filed under: Wine, Books, Australia

Australia's best selling wine book - the annual Australian Wine Companion - has won the prestigious 2005 Saltram Australian Wine Communicator Award. The award means the author James Halliday picks up AUS$11,000 (£4,500).

The guide lists and profiles over 2,000 different wineries and supplies tasting notes on 4,500 wines. Halliday has written or co-authored more than 60 wine books since 1979, and won many awards, including Decanter Book of the Year, the André Simon Book Award and the James Beard Award.

The book is listed on Amazon.com for $12.97 and on Amazon.co.uk for £10.31 The latest version will soon be published.

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4-06-2006 @ 10:01PM

Ed Charles said...

My bible. Probably the best refernce to Australian wine and when I visit a region I never leave home without it. Only problem is that by the time it is published it is already one year out of date and if you want to buy the top rated stuf it's long sold out.

4-07-2006 @ 3:31AM

Alex said...

If you need a wine reference that comes out regularly you could try WineState which comes out once a month. When I lived in Australia that was very much part of my required reading.

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