Top 10 books for wine lovers

Nose: A Novel by James Conaway

Released in March of last year, Nose is set in a sun-soaked valley in northern California where Clyde Craven-Jones is living the dream as an egotistical wine critic. During a routine tasting in advance of his publication’s new issue, he blindly samples a selection of Cabernets to discover a bottle worthy of his highest score, a never-before-awarded 20 on the Craven-Jones wine scale. However the bottle’s origins are a mystery. Cue an investigation to uncover the provenance of this superior Cabernet.

The Wall Street Journal said Nose “offers a burst of hearty comic notes and finishes with a lingering penumbra of bittersweet nostalgia.”