Australia's favourite wine writer, James Halliday, invites readers to join him for a year of travel, wine-tasting and work in the vineyards.
This journal traces James Halliday's sojourns around the country and around the world as he judges wine shows, addresses wine critics and growers at exhibitions, holidays in his French country farmhouse, and oversees the vintage on his home vineyard, Coldstream Hills, in Victoria's Yarra Valley. The daily entries are brought to life with an extensive collection of James's own photographs.
It's an idyllic life to some - but Halliday sets a cracking pace, with hardly a day of rest to be found amidst the back-to-back flights, wine tastings and functions, not to mention the regular output of writing for books, magazines and newspapers.
