Liquid Gold by Nicholas Faith

Liquid Gold

The story of Australian Wine and its Makers

by Nicholas Faith

Macmillan 2002, [First Edition], ISBN 0732911508, colour and black and white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“Within a couple of generations of the first European settlements, Australia was making wines renowned throughout the world.  But the arrival of the devastating phylloxera epidemic, economic depression and changing public tastes in both Australia and its principal market, Britain, saw winemaking in Australia sink to disastrous lows…
In Liquid Gold, British wine writer Nicholas Faith, best known for his award-winning books on Bordeaux, takes us on an enthralling journey from 1788 to the present day, giving us the inside story of Australian wine.”