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Wine tasters typically describe a wine in terms of its bouquet of aromas, mouth characteristics and aftertaste. None of these, however, can catch the sensation felt by a wine lover mindful that the wine in his glass was praised by poets and celebrities through the ages; a wine known to Homer, the author of Iliad and Odyssey, and to Euripides, the 5th century BC Athenian tragedian, who called it Nama, divine inspiration; a wine chosen by the Church...
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This history of the wine trade traces the origins of wine, its earliest cultivation and its trading path as well as traditions throughout the history of civilization. The reader learns how cultures treated and traded wine, including the ancients like Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Etruscans ,Phoenicians, and Romans, as well as Europeans and the New World in modern times. The story covers grapegrowing and winemaking, the characters who have made up...
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