Alexis Lichine's Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits by LICHINE, Alexis - 1967

Alfred A. Knopf, January 1968. Hardcover. Good. Knopf, 1968, Second Edition. Moderate wear to both book and jacket, binding firm, text unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Jacket is scuffed with edgewear, bottom edges of spinecover is torn. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Jacket is scuffed with light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1967. /No Dust Jacket.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First edition of this comprehensive guide to wines and spirits. Quarto, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Alexis Lichine on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Illustrated with 52 specially prepared maps. Alexis Lichine was a wine writer and entrepreneur. He played a key role in promoting varietal labelling of wine, was a masterful salesman of wine, and owned Chateau Prieure-Lichine and a share of Chateau Lascombes in the Medoc. Starting around 1940, Lichine and Schoonmaker promoted the idea that California producers should label their wines by the grape variety or varieties from which they were made. The standard practice among New World producers was to give their wines semi-generic labels. That is, they named them after the regions whose wines they resembled. For example, full-bodied red varieties might be labeled "Burgundy", whereas crisp whites might be labeled "Chablis". California's Wente… Read More