The different flavours we detect in wine are the real cause of the pleasure we have in have in drinking it. Few wine-drinkers know much about flavour, or about why wines taste the way they do. This ground-breaking study, the sources of the taste of wine are examined. Appreciating Wine will help you understand how a good wine ought to taste. It will also show you how to identify a corked one and will enable you to make sense of those mysterious descriptions of wine through ' flavour signatures' – a graphic device which helps you identify the presence and strength of individual flavours.

Phillip hills was the founder of the Scothch Malt whisky Society and his first book, Appreciating Whisky, was short-listed for the Glenfiddich Drinks Book of the Year 2001.

 

Phillip Hills is the founder of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, through which he led the revolution in public understanding of malt whisky and created the market for specially bottled fine malts which all whisky companies now supply, He is the director of The Malt Masterclass, a company specialising in corporate tastings and classes. He is also the first (and only) holder since 1791 of a private licence to distill whisky, which he does for demonstration purposes using a copper pot-still.