Two leading oenophiles choose their best wine books. Gin connoisseur Olivier Ward chooses his best books on that drink and Bianca Bosker, author of Cork Dork, talks about wine and drink in her best choices on the senses.

Jancis Robinson, wine journalist and connoisseur, and Randall Grahm, the Californian winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard, both choose World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson. Both extoll the book’s maps of the world’s vineyards as uniquely useful aids for wine lovers.  Bianca Bosker talks us through her story from olfactory ignoramus to wine connoisseur and cultural historian of taste and smell.

Olivier Ward discusses the history of gin, from its origins in the low countries, to the epidemic of gin-induced social deprivation in the London of the 18^th century, to the origin of the gin and tonic in the need for British troops to find a drink with which to wash down their daily dose of quinine.