The Gold Book 

This unique and famous annually up-dated guide to the wines of Australia has 16,000 entries covering 1,600 wines from 374 makers. Available as a hard-cover 440 page superbly printed 5 colour pocket-sized book, or as a sleekly efficient computer program with full search facilities, for the Windows environment, as part of the WineBase cellar software. (There is no Macintosh version, nor will there be.)

Each wine listed is ranked out of a maximum of 5 stars by author Robin Bradley (including some superb wines which earn the Gold Star status - among the great wines of the world), and each vintage of each wine is rated by the winemakers out of a maximum of 7. The makers also stipulate the ideal year to drink each wine, and there is a dollar value calculated for every entry (except where the ideal time to have drunk the wine is prior to now).

Over 850,000 copies in all editions have been sold, an indication of how indispensable the Gold Book has become to wine lovers since the first edition in 1979. In particular, the use of the Gold Book as a Corporate Gift has been overwhelmingly successful.

Trade Enquiries: "Australian Wine Vintages" is published and marketed by 
Hunter Agencies   PO Box 105 Blackwood VIC 3458 Australia 
Phone (613) 5368 6770, Fax (613) 5368 6773, 

eMail brenda@gold-book.com