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"Wine Behind The Label is, we believe, THE reference guide for the best wines around the world, which you can handily download as a pdf. It is advantageous inasmuch as it enables you to print out as little or as much as you want from it, thus saving you the bother of lugging around a 3 kg. book. Also, where a producer's website is listed, you will be able to link to that website simply by clicking on the text. In addition, by becoming a Bacchanalian, you will be able to access all the current updates for the next 12 months until they will be consolidated into the 8th edition at the end of 2010. This will make it a unique guide, as it will become an ongoing “live” guide, enabling you to keep abreast of developments in domains already featured in the guide, as well as new ones."



Original authors David Moore and Philip Williamson have been involved with assessing high quality wine for the past 20 years. Both have travelled widely and been exposed to hands-on wine making from Bordeaux to Barossa. During the past 10 years both writers contributed to a diverse range of wine information media. They were involved with the London based Vinopolis Wine Experience in its inception, ensuring its authenticity as a major Wine tourist attraction. In 2000-2001 they were the principal wine judges for Wine Today Europe for the New York Times. From 2001 the pair pooled their substantial wine tasting expertise to set about creating a wine guide of unprecedented depth and scope. The result, the critically acclaimed Wine behind the label (first edition 2003) covers all the world's top wine producers, and their wines, in a truly global context, in a way no other wine book has before. They both actively sought out new producers, travelling extensively to visit them at their wineries or meet them at the most important of the world's major wine fairs. The pair gained wide recognition resulting in three major awards for Wine behind the label in 2006 and 2007, the Louis Roederer Wine Guide of the Year, Glenfiddich Drink Book of the Year and the André Simon Drink Book of the Year. Crucially, they have had no commercial links with wine producers in order to maintain their independent stance and unreserved critical analysis.
Philip has now left and David has taken the overall role as editor for the whole project. Neville Blech, who has provided assistance since 2005 has been a contributor to the 7th edition. He has written a number of new winery profiles in both California and Liguria in North-West Italy and has updated the sections on Burgundy, Beaujolais, Piedmont and North-West Italy as well as North-East Italy. It is anticipated that David and Neville will be joined by other distinguished wine writers in the future.