Publisher description -- Vino is an introduction, a guide, and an homage to Italian vintages and wine-makers. The most up-to-date and inclusive book available in the English language, it tours a land of vines more abundant and diversified than any other on earth, ranging from Mont Blanc in the Alps to the island of Pantelleria facing Africa in the Sicilian Channel. Wine columnist and long-standing appreciator Burton Anderson describes and classifies the vineyards of each of Italy's twenty regions in turn. He evaluates hundreds of wines on the basis of quality, authenticity, and real worth, noting those available for export. Vino also includes intimate portraits of dedicated Italian winemakers, young and old, male and female, traditional and progressive.