Christmas Member Prize Draw
We are delighted, together with our friends at Octopus Books, to be able to offer one lucky member the most coveted wine titles of Christmas 2024!
1) One Thousand Vines - Winner of an OIV Award 2024 - Pascaline Lepeltier
In One Thousand Vines internationally celebrated sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier answers all the important questions about wine. With three main parts - Reading Vines, Reading Landscapes and Reading Wines - the book challenges preconceived ideas about the vine and its wine. It explains where we are now, how we got here, and shows us a way forward - in how grapes will be grown, made into wine, sold and enjoyed.
One Thousand Vines isn't an encyclopedia or atlas but offers the reader keys to understand the links between the bottle and the producers, terroirs and vineyards which give birth to it. With a refreshingly unique approach, star sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier offers those curious about wine not only the answers but also the tools to understand it by oneself.
Pascaline Lepeltier is probably the most decorated female sommelier on the planet. She is one of only 25 or so women to have been certified a Master Sommelier, and was the first woman to be named Meilleur Sommelier de France and also Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF). In 2024, she received the Decanter Rising Star award. and only weeks ago placed second in the Best Sommelier of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Pascaline has written for various prominent wine guides and books in France, and is a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Wine.
2) Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Guide - 2025
THE WORLD'S BESTSELLING ANNUAL WINE GUIDE
Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book. Now in its 48th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide to wine.
Providing clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world, the book also reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, as well as the best growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2025 gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both.
This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book includes a colour supplement on Pinot Noir, the world's most highly prized grape, discussing everything from variety and food pairings, to Pinot Noir sparkling wines and how climate change has affected the production of this grape.
The draw will take place on 5th December. You can enter your name into the draw by emailing info@uksommelier.com