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Ancient Wine:Search for the Origins of Viniculture

Gifted Gourmet

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The review of the book from American Scientist

It takes nerve to tackle a subject as wide-ranging in chronology, geography and historical variability as the study of ancient viniculture, and it takes rhetorical flourish to make such a study riveting, informative and thought-provoking....
This book is like a good bottle of wine, behind which there is always a good story, one often embellished as the bottle is emptied. What happy symposiast, wandering home through the darkened jasmine-scented streets of ancient Babylon or Athens, would fault the storyteller or the wine for having made a better tale than mere evidence would warrant?

A marvelously interesting history of viniculture which might be worth adding to your culinary library?

Melissa Goodman aka "Gifted Gourmet"

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