A new edition of the world's leading work on Champagne and sparkling wine by Tom Stevenson, fully updated and extended by Essi Avellan MW.

This is the book from which to find the answers to all your questions - a large, well set out, all-encompassing work on the subject. There are endless options suggested here on Champagne to try, and you will have enormous enjoyment searching for them. Every true wine buff should own a copy -- Clarissa Dickson Wright, The Journal of The Gourmet Club This stylishly-packaged book is everything you'd expect from Britain's leading fizz expert: authoritative, opinionated and comprehensive, with plenty of coverage given to non-French (and even English) wines -- Tim Atkin The Observer An authority acknowledged even by the Champenois The Sunday Times

Tom Stevenson has long been regarded as the world's leading authority on Champagne and sparkling wine and is one of the world's leading and most respected wine writers. He is also the author of Sotheby's Wine Encyclopaedia. Essi Avellan MW is one of the world's most exciting and talented young wine writers, and only the second Scandinavian to gain the coveted Master of Wine qualification. She is the editor of FINE Champagne Magazine.