Acerbic, consumer-friendly wine critic Malcolm Gluck publishes a new book – “The 
Great Wine Swindle” on 18 November 2009. Malcolm Gluck is one of the nation’s best known wine critics and a voice of authority on all things concerning wine. His new book is intended to reveal the snobbery associated with wine today and how customers are being duped?
Apart from grapejuice, do you have any idea what goes into the wines you enjoy? Is champagne just empty hype? How have so many restaurants become wine rip-offs? A sense of mystery clouds the basic understanding of wine. Its rituals are manipulated to maintain lies and myths about wines, often to make them seem better and ridiculously expensive. So what is the real story? In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Malcolm Gluck writes about the scams, deceptions and lies that wine growers, merchants, supermarkets, waiters and wine writers use to confuse you. Ever since he wrote his first newspaper article on wine in 1989, Malcolm Gluck has been collecting the damning evidence. Here he reveals for the first time the secrets people in the wine industry would prefer wine drinkers did not know.
