9000 Years Of Wine

Author : Roderick Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770503434
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 9000 Years of Wine written by Roderick Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humans have had a complicated history with wine for thousands of years. It has been a banal item in the daily diet and treated as a liquid treasure. It has been venerated as a gift from the gods and cursed as threat to social order. It has been considered healthy to drink as well as hazardous to health. In 9000 Years of Wine, Rod Phillips surveys this long story and places wine in the broad sweep of history. He shows how it has been linked to big social, cultural, and economic swings, how it has been caught up in wars and revolutions, and how it has had an impact on the lives of men and women for millennia."--Publisher.

Author : Roderick Phillips
Publisher : Whitecap Books
ISBN 13 : 9781770502406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 9000 Years of Wine written by Roderick Phillips and published by Whitecap Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under title: A short history of wine. London: Allen Lane, 2000.

Author : Patrick E. McGovern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691197202
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Wine written by Patrick E. McGovern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone age wine -- The Noah hypothesis -- The archaeological and chemical hunt for the earliest wine -- Neolithic wine! -- Wine of the earliest pharaohs -- Wine of Egypt's golden age -- Wine of the world's first cities -- Wine and the great empires of the ancient Near East -- The Holy Land's bounty -- Lands of Dionysos : Greece and western Anatolia -- A beverage for King Midas and at the limits of the civilized world -- Molecular archaeology, wine, and a view to the future.

Author : Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216602
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of Wine written by Ian Tattersall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wine is art. Wine is ritual. Wine is culture. Wine is romance. But in the hands of Tattersall and DeSalle . . . we learn that wine is also science.”—Neil deGrasse Tyson A Wall Street Journal Best Book for Wine Lovers An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to wine one evening, it almost inevitably led the two—one a palaeoanthropologist, the other a molecular biologist—to begin exploring the many intersections between science and wine. This book presents their fascinating, freewheeling answers to the question “What can science tell us about wine?” And vice versa. Conversational and accessible to everyone, this colorfully illustrated book embraces almost every imaginable area of the sciences, from microbiology and ecology (for an understanding of what creates this complex beverage) to physiology and neurobiology (for insight into the effects of wine on the mind and body). The authors draw on physics, chemistry, biochemistry, evolution, and climatology, and they expand the discussion to include insights from anthropology, primatology, entomology, Neolithic archaeology, and even classical history. The resulting volume is indispensable for anyone who wishes to appreciate wine to its fullest. “Chemistry. Evolutionary biology. Genetics. This book is an excellent layman’s refresher on these diverse topics, and many more, and how they fit into the grand scheme of wine . . . A fact-packed and accessible read that goes a long way toward explaining why and how wine became such an important component in our enjoyment of the natural world.”—Wine Spectator

Author : Benoist Simmat
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781910593806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wine written by Benoist Simmat and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of wine is the history of civilization. It is the religious drink par excellence. In Greek mythology, references to wine abound. In the Bible, after the Flood, Noah plants a vineyard. In the Middle Ages, it was in the monasteries and churches that the syrupy drink of antiquity, unpalatable if not diluted, was transformed into the wine we know today. Wine expert Benoist Simmat and artist Daniel Casanave trace the story of wine from its origins in the Mediterranean to the globalized industry of the 21st century, spanning the innovations that have punctuated wine's long history, from oak-barrel aging to the invention of the bottle."--

Author : Oz Clarke
Publisher : Pavilion
ISBN 13 : 9781909815490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Wine in 100 Bottles written by Oz Clarke and published by Pavilion. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winemaking is as old as civilization itself and wine has always been more than just a drink. For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a vast global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes. This fascinating and entertaining book takes a look at 100 bottles that mark a significant change in the evolution of wine and winemaking and captures the innovations and discoveries that have had the biggest impact on the history of ‘bottled poetry’. From goatskin to the German Ratskeller casks and invention of the glass wine bottle, from the short onion-shaped bottles of the 1720s to the tall cylindrical bottles of the 1780s, why Bordeaux, Burgundy and Hoch have their own distinctive bottle shape to the distinctive Paul Masson carafe of the 1970s. Other stories cover the first cork-topped bottles to screw caps, bag-in-box, cans and cartons, early wine labels once glue was strong enough, the first wine labels to be produced by a vineyard (and not a merchant as previously) and commissioned artwork by the 20th century’s most iconic artists for labels on high-end bottles; historically important and unique bottles: the oldest unopened, the most expensive sold at auction, the rarest; wines from the oldest vineyard in production, from the driest place on earth, from the highest and lowest vineyards and the most northern and southern. Oz Clarke also writes about the people who have influenced wine through the centuries, from the medieval Cistercian monks of Burgundy who first thought of place as an important aspect of wine’s identity, through scientists like Pasteur and Peynaud who improved key technical aspects of winemaking, to 20th-century giants like Robert Mondavi and Robert Parker Jr. Oz also talks about famous vintages, from the 1727 Rüdesheimer Apostelwein to the first Montana Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc in 1979 and today’s cult wines from Bordeaux and California. Word Count - 55,000

Author : Roderick Phillips
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617609
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcohol written by Roderick Phillips and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of alcohol, discussing its social and economic impact and the tensions between those who saw alcohol as a healthy alternative to untreated water and the views of governments and religious bodies, which saw it as a source of social instability.

Author : Jamie Goode
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275756
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic Wine written by Jamie Goode and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalness is a hot topic in the wine world. But what exactly is a natural wine? For this book, best-selling wine writer Jamie Goode has teamed up with winemaker and Master of Wine Sam Harrop to explore the wide range of issues surrounding authenticity in wine. Sam Harrop initially trained as a winemaker in New Zealand.

Author : Graham Harding
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wine Miscellany written by Graham Harding and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of clever, practical, and awe-inspiring facts and trivia covers the whole story of wine, from ancient Egypt to modern-day Hollywood, presenting a complete resource on everything from sex and wine to food and wine pairings to the best (and worst) vintages throughout history. Line drawings.

Author : Jonathan Hennessey
Publisher : Ten Speed Graphic
ISBN 13 : 1607746352
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comic Book Story of Beer written by Jonathan Hennessey and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller A full-color, lushly illustrated graphic novel that recounts the many-layered past and present of beer through dynamic pairings of pictures and meticulously researched insight into the history of the world's favorite brew. The History of Beer Comes to Life! We drink it. We love it. But how much do we really know about beer? Starting from around 7000 BC, beer has emerged as a major element driving humankind’s development, a role it has continued to play through today’s craft brewing explosion. With The Comic Book Story of Beer, the first-ever nonfiction graphic novel focused on this most favored beverage, you can follow along from the very beginning, as authors Jonathan Hennessey and Mike Smith team up with illustrator Aaron McConnell to present the key figures, events, and, yes, beers that shaped and frequently made history. No boring, old historical text here, McConnell’s versatile art style—moving from period-accurate renderings to cartoony diagrams to historical caricatures and back—finds an equal and effective partner in the pithy, informative text of Hennessey and Smith presented in captions and word balloons on each page. The end result is a filling mixture of words and pictures sure to please the beer aficionado and comics geek alike.