Drilling for Wine

"Drilling for Wine" is the highly diverting account of Robin Yapp's unorthodox conversion from a full-time practicing dentist to one of Britain's leading specialist wine importers. With characteristic panache, Yapp regales the reader with robust tales of his early adventures amid the Gothic horrors of the catering industry in the 1950s, and with the perils, pitfalls and pleasures of transforming his unquenchable enthusiasm for fine wine into a highly successful business. Encounters with celebrated personalities of the wine trade are described with refreshing lack of inhibition and "Drilling for Wine" will afford as much pleasure and amusement to members of the trade as to the general reader.