ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS we drink writers like to have over a late night glass of port is who is the best in our admittedly rather limited field. In my experience, one name comes up more than all others: Andrew Jefford. He is the wine writer’s wine writer.
Jefford is the author of two essential books, , an insightful guide to the renaissance going on in French wine at the turn of the century, and , a dazzling, poetic look at the whiskies of Islay. In a sane world, or the Eighties as it’s better known, Jefford would be writing a book every couple of years and, now 20 years old, would have been updated a number of times.
