Content: The outstanding success of The Compleat Imbiber led to the concept of an annual Compleat Imbiber. In this anthology there is an impressive gathering of new writing by top authors: Kingsley Amis writes about claret fifty years hence a witty commentary on wine-snobbery; Angus Wilson's In Moderation is as fine a character study as mellow vintage port; Dilys Powell writes about drinking habits in the films, and Denzil Batchelor on sportsmen who do drink. Peter Fleming, the adventurer in outlandish places, describes local brews in uncivilized corners of the earth, while James Laver eruditely chronicles the drinking habits of Britons through the ages. There is an account of a successful attempt to establish a vineyard in Hampshire by Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones, and a nostalgic piece on the glory that was London: the Empire and the Alhambra, by W. Macqueen-Pope. Other contributors include Edgar Lustgarten, Brian Connell, John Russell, Joseph Wechsberg and Laurie Lee. Con