This unique and famous annually up-dated guide to the wines of Australia has 15,000 entries covering 1,600 wines from 374 makers. Available as a 408 page superbly printed 5 colour pocket-sized book, or as a sleekly efficient computer program with full search facilities, for the Windows environment, as part of the WineBase cellar software (see the banner below). (There is no Macintosh version, nor will there be.)
Each wine listed is ranked out of a maximum of 5 stars by author Robin Bradley (including some superb wines which earn the Gold Star status - among the great wines of the world), and each vintage of each wine is rated by the winemakers out of a maximum of 7. The makers also stipulate the ideal year to drink each wine, and there is a dollar value calculated for every entry (except where the ideal time to have drunk the wine is prior to now).
Over 800,000 copies in all editions have been sold, an indication of how indispensable the Gold Book has become to wine lovers since the first edition in 1979. In particular, the use of the Gold Book as a Corporate Gift has been overwhelmingly successful.
