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This unique and famous annually up-dated guide to the wines of Australia has 12,000 entries covering 1,400 wines from 360 makers. Available as a 372 page superbly printed 5 colour pocket-sized book. The current edition is the 20th (2003) published in August 2002. 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.