Michael Broadbent almost certainly knows more about fine wine than anyone else alive. Recruited by Christie's in 1966 to revive their wine auction business, he has, according to 'The Oxford Companion To Wine', "traded in and tasted a greater number of fine and rare wines than anyone else in the world."
What is more, he has catalogued this lifetime's dedication. In his architect's handwriting, he has made a meticulous record of his impressions of every wine he has ever tasted, over 85,000 of them in 133 notebooks.
'Vintage Wine', timed to coincide with Michael Broadbent's 75th birthday and his celebration of 50 years in the wine trade, distils this knowledge of wines that are now universal, high-level demand, wines that are being collected, consumed, traded and appreciated by vast and increasing numbers of cognoscenti in, literally, all corners of the globe.
More single-mindedly focused on the classics than his earlier works, 'Vintage Wine' is also more opinionated and more personal.
