Oxford Companion

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And with one bound we are free - of that horribly cumbersome online version of the previous, 2nd edition of this massive reference book. This month its publishers Oxford University Press have kindly allowed us to publish the world’s only online version of the brand new 3rd edition, to which Julia Harding MW and I devoted the best(?) part of two years apiece. As promised, there are lots of improvements to how it’s presented.

Now you can:

• Search for individual entries - and those related to them
• Browse by country/region
• Browse by category
• As well as using the alphabet to reach the precise entry you’re seeking.

The 3rd edition of this classic reference work seems to have been received even more enthusiastically than its two predecessors.

• Click here to read a selection of reviews of the 3rd edition.
• Click here to read the preface to this new edition.
• Click here to see a list of all the new entries in the 3rd edition.
• Click here to read our Note to the reader to help you understand how to use all this material and the logic behind it.
• Click here to see a complete list of all contributors to the Companion (although clicking on the initials at the end of a signed entry will take you straight to their bio). 
• Click here to access all the entries on brandy and associated subjects which appeared in OCW2 but had to be dropped in OCW3 to make way for the extensive updates of all the material on wine.