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Australia's most influential wine guide. Jeremy Oliver's 25th Vintage Edition.

Jeremy Oliver celebrates 25 years in the business as one of Australia's leading wine critics with his 20th book. The best-selling guide to Australian wine, The 2010 Australian Wine Annual, now in its 13th edition, sports a brand-new design and features more wines and wineries than ever before.

The Australian Wine Annual is a must-have for wine enthusiasts. Alphabetically arranged, it is a handy sized book that easily fits into a handbag, glove box or coat pocket. It features professional tasting notes of more than 1200 new releases plus commentary on wine trends and the issues facing Australian wine.

The Australian Wine Annual takes the hard work out of choosing the best Australian wine since Jeremy Oliver selects the very best at each price-point. For a winery to be one of the 300-odd featured in the 2010 edition is itself a significant achievement. In this new guide, he rates nearly 13,000 wines, each of which he has personally tasted.

Non-technical and simple to follow, it presents a score out of 100 and a tasting note for the current release of each wine listed. Colour-coded charts of drinking windows indicate quality cellaring potential of back vintages of each wine. The book also features a full-colour high-resolution label of every wine covered, making it as easy as possible for people to find the wines they want to taste and enjoy. There's also a handy up-front section featuring Jeremy's Top 100 wines, hot tips and opinions.

Encyclopedic, accessible and extremely easy to use, The Australian Wine Annual 2010 is the definitive guide to Australian wine for wine lovers the world over. It includes:

1. Ratings of nearly 13,000 wines (more than any other annual guide)
2. Full colour labels and tasting notes of more than 1,200 current release wines
3. Information and commentary on 300 wineries
4. Fully independent wine rankings
5. When to drink each wine
6. Australia's Five Star Wines
   Jeremy Oliver has given his highest ranking of Five Stars to a mere 20 wines. These are the elite wines that time and again perform to the highest standard.
7. Jeremy Oliver's Wine of the Year
   Penfolds Grange 2004 � 'The best vintage ever of Australia�s icon wine...'
8. Jeremy Oliver's Top 100
   A series of innovative lists of the best wines of their kind.
9. The Varietal Guide to Australian Wine Grape by grape, who is leading the way in Australian wine and which regions are performing best...
10. 2009 Vintage Report
    An outline of the challenging 2009 vintage conditions throughout Australia and the resultant effect on key varieties.
11. Trends in Australian Wine
    Superior rose, bushfire taint, better wines from new varieties and the new textural element evident in top Australian white wine�
12. The Best Australian Wines for $20 and Under
    You still don't have to pay much to experience truly memorable Australian wine. Here's Jeremy Oliver�s insiders' list...

The big questions people want to know about wines are: 'What to buy?', 'What to drink?', 'What to cellar and for how long?' and 'How good are they?'. There is no book in print that answers these questions better than this approachable guide.