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003 OCoLC
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008 880713s1988 enkacf 001 0aeng
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050 14 $aHD9381.5
082 04 $a380.1/456632/00924$219
100 1 $aYapp, Robin.
245 10 $aDrilling for wine /$cRobin Yapp.
260 $aLondon :$bFaber,$c1988.
300 $axiii, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aForeword / by Cyril Ray -- Waiting for wine -- Aphrodisiacal aperitifs -- Apprenticeship in teeth and wine -- Professional plunge -- Exotic encounters -- Immersion in Bordeaux -- Public launch -- Bungundian bacchanalia -- Beaujolais and the Rhône -- Ray to the rescue -- A lamb to the slaughter -- Cordier hospitality -- Various visitors -- Beer to milk to wine -- Foire aux vins d'orange -- Gastronomic warfare -- Chez Chave -- Royal return.
520 $a"Drilling for Wine" is the highly diverting account of Robin Yapp's unorthodox conversion from a full-time practicing dentist to one of Britain's leading specialist wine importers. With characteristic panache, Yapp regales the reader with robust tales of his early adventures amid the Gothic horrors of the catering industry in the 1950s, and with the perils, pitfalls and pleasures of transforming his unquenchable enthusiasm for fine wine into a highly successful business. Encounters with celebrated personalities of the wine trade are described with refreshing lack of inhibition and "Drilling for Wine" will afford as much pleasure and amusement to members of the trade as to the general reader. -- From publisher's description.
650 0 $aWine and wine making$zGreat Britain.
650 7 $aWine and wine making.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01175907
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
653 $aGreat Britain$aWines trades - Personal observations
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