Naast algemene informatie over de gebieden staan er ook heerlijke weetjes in, zoals 'an ancient mediterranean marriage' tussen lamsvlees en Rhône wijnen. En dat je Amarone het beste met Parmezaanse kaas kunt eten om de heftigheid van de wijn te verzachten.

Dit schrijft Tamlyn Currin op Jancis Robinson:

MacNeil is an educator and communicator, and her gift shines through on every single page. Her writing is immediately engaging, ardent, persuasive. She writes as if she’s having a chat with you, sitting at your kitchen table, a glass of her favourite fizz in hand. She’s informal, unstuffy, sometimes even a little irreverent – there is absolutely nothing in this book that could be described as dry, didactic or pedantic. She writes to inspire, almost more than she writes to inform.