The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Wine: A Definitive Tour Through the World of Wine, with Over 500 Photographs, Maps and Wine Labels Tapa dura - 2005

Stuart Walton has been writing about alcoholic drinks since the early 1990s. A prolific writer and commentator on wines and spirits, he is a contributor to World of Fine Wine and Decanter magazines, and the website www.wine-pages.com. His work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese and Korean. Stuart writes for the Guardian Books site, as well as a number of specialist drink publications and websites, and reviews books for review31.co.uk and World of Fine Wine magazine. His work has included a widely acclaimed cultural history of intoxication, Out Of It (Penguin), the multi-disciplinary Humanity: An Emotional History (Atlantic, published in the United States as A Natural History of Human Emotions) and In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling (Zero Books).