Is there a pocket guide to French wine?

[Alta Bob]

I have the Vino Italiano buying guide (pocket guide) by Joseph Bastianich and David Lynch. I found it very helpful when on vacation in Italy last year.

I was hoping there is something similar for French wines. I know my varietals of the major regions well enough but I am not that famiar with the producers. And I really would like to have more confidence about the smaller regions.

When out in a little village somewhere, I usually ask the waiter for a recommendation of a local wine and that can be exciting too.

[GeoffD]

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate prints a pocket guide every 6 months. When I'm traveling to a particular wine region, I usually scan the appropriate section of the Wine Advocate and load the .pdf files on my PDA.

[Bill Hunt]

Do not know of one, but there has got to be one, or many. BTW, is that David Lynch of "Twin Peaks" fame? Can't be...

Hunt

[Robert Lauriston]

I've got the Simon and Schuster Pocket Guide to French Regional Wines by Roger Voss, but I've found the large French section of Hugh Johnson's pocket guide more useful.

[carswell]

Jacqueline Friedrich's *The Wines of France". Not quite as slim as, say, Johnson's annual guide but pretty compact all the same.
www.jacquelinefriedrich.com/work1.htm