Burgundy: A Comprehensive Guide to the Producers, Appellations, and Wines.

PARKER, Robert M.

Item Number: 142491

New York: Simon and Shuster, 1990.

First edition of Parker’s most ambitious and comprehensive work on Burgundy. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps by Jeanyee Wong and drawings by Christopher Wormell. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “10/4/90 Robert Parker.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel & Scher.

In this, Parker's most ambitious and comprehensive work on Burgundy, Parker offers and extraordinary guide to the growers, appellations, and wines of the region that produces the most sought-after, expensive, and frequently least understood wines in the world. "Parker is the owner of one of the most feared, most exercised notes in the wine world. What distinguishes Parker from most wine writers is his most absolute determination to pay his own way" (Janice Robinson).