This DK guide provides some excellent background on French wine-growing regions and the individual wines that they produce. Each section on the regions includes examples of notable vineyards and their products. Happily, the book does not stint from warning readers off some wines that are not up to their hype or cost.
The book includes some basic suggestions on how to read a label, how to appreciate wine, how to build a cellar, etc. but the guide's strongest suit is the commentary on regions and their individual wines. This is slim enough to carry along if you are doing a wine tour in France and includes reasonably good maps of the regions that provide logical itineraries for tasting stops.
There are more comprehensive works on French wines--literally encyclopedias--but the DK French Wine guide is a fine basic work on the subject and probably not more than most of need. Get more detail about French Wine (Eyewitness Companion).
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