History charting the growth, decline and recovery of the major winegrowing areas of Australia from the planting of the first vine to the export boom of the 1990

Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past

Variously regarded as a sacred, religious drink, an inebriant, and even the work of the Devil, throughout the ages wine has generated passions that verge on man

This second edition has been brought up to date following the latest developments in the state. The human history of Western Australia, as of all Australia, str

This book describes 92 of the most popular wine grape varieties currently used by wine makers around the world plus some that may have a place in the future.