The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia [SEP] publisher
The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia
The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia is a reference work on wine written by Tom Stevenson and published since 1988 by Dorling Kindersley, selling over 600,000 copies in 14 languages.
"The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia" has a stated aim to map and describe "every appellation, official and unofficial", of which there were more than 4,000 in total by 1997, making it an industry standard wine reference and required reading for the Master of Wine, Master Sommelier and Cape Wine Master examinations. The contents
demand. With mass tourism on the increase throughout the 1970s, the demand for "The World Atlas of Wine" continued to grow, as there was no real competition until 1988, when "The Sotheby's World Wine Encyclopedia" (now "The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia") was published.
The Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, a French governmental organisation that avoids comment on commercial ventures, was moved to describe "The World Atlas of Wine" upon publication as "a major landmark in the literature of wine"