The Oxford Companion to Wine [SEP] publisher
The Oxford Companion to Wine
The Oxford Companion to Wine (OCW) is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press. The book provides an alphabetically arranged reference to wine, compiled and edited by Jancis Robinson, with contributions by several wine writers including Hugh Johnson, Michael Broadbent, and James Halliday, and experts such as viticulturist Richard Smart and oenologist Pascal Ribéreau-Gayon.
The contract for the first edition was signed in 1988, and after five years of writing it was published in 1994
James Halliday (wine)
James Halliday, AM (born 1938) is an Australian wine writer and critic, winemaker, and senior wine competition judge.
Since 1979 he has written and co-authored more than 40 books on wine, including contributions to the "Larousse Encyclopedia of Wine" and "The Oxford Companion to Wine". Since 1986 he has published an annual overview of Australian wine which (since 2000) has been entitled "James Halliday Annual Wine Companion".
Jancis Robinson has described Halliday as