Publications

Michael Schuster has written for several periodicals, including Wine & Spirit, Which? Wine Guide, Decanter, Wine and BBC Good Food magazines. He has also contributed entries for the Larousse Encyclopedia of Wine and The Oxford Companion to Wine. Currently he writes regularly for The World of Fine Wine, and occasionally for Decanter.

In 1987 he translated Emile Peynaud's Le Goût du Vin; in 1989 his Understanding Wine (M. Beazley) was published and in 1992 he worked with Serena Sutcliffe to produce the new edition of her Guide to the Wines of Burgundy. Understanding Wine was translated into six languages and sold over 300,000 copies.

His latest book, Essential Winetasting (Mitchell Beazley), based on his courses, was published in November 2000 and won all three major British wine book awards for the Best Drink Book 2000: The Andre Simon, Glenfiddich and the Prix du Champagne Lanson awards. It can be purchased direct from the author - order on the downloadable event Booking Form.