The Wine Collector

Practical wine collecting advice from Steve Bachmann, Vinfolio's CEO

Nov

2006

The best-selling wine book of all time?

Categories: Books

Over lunch today with the charming, down-to-earth Karen MacNeil in St. Helena, she mentioned that her book, The Wine Bible, has sold over 380,000 copies compared to the average for a wine book of only 6,000 copies. Released in 2001, sales are still going strong (still ranked #957 on Amazon amongst all books). While this is a great book for a wine novice, it’s equally appealing to the experienced wine collector, especially in its succinct coverage of wine regions often neglected by collectors like Germany. Selling for less than $14 on Amazon, this 904-pager (which took Karen 10 years to write) is a steal and another great holiday gift idea.

Karen just released a new book on food and wine pairing in September 2006 titled Wine, Food & Friends. It apparently sold out of its 100,000 copy pre-release production run so Karen may soon have the top two best-selling wine books of all time.

1 comments:

I would have ventured a guess that Hugh Johnson's Wine Atlas was the all time best seller. No supporting facts though. And I don't know how well that sells in the US, which would count for very much.

Posted by Per & Britt at Tuesday February 20, 2007

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