Vintage: The Story of Wine

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Simon and Schuster, 1989 - 480 páginas
Publisher description -- In this enthralling book, Hugh Johnson tells how wine--that most symbolic and subtle joint product of man and nature--runs as a thread through our history. He provides for the first time the cultural perspective that enables us to understand the wine world we know today, and he tells an absorbing and very human story. In 8,000 years, wine has been refined and developed into one of the foremost products of civilization. The wines we drink and appreciate today are the direct product of this story. Great wines have their roots in the customs, traditions and history of their home ground. Hugh Johnson shows how the particularly special wines of the world have been honed and refined. He poses and answers the key question: Why have some places, and some people, made great wine, and what in the history of process explains the difference between the great and the merely good?

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