Inventing Wine: A New History Of One Of The World's Most Ancient Pleasures.

Inventing Wine: A New History Of One Of The World's Most Ancient Pleasures.Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those made in earlier eras. While its basic chemistry remains largely the same, wine's social roles have changed fundamentally, being invented and reinvented many times over many centuries. In Inventing Wine, Paul Lukacs tells the enticing story of wine's transformation from a source of spiritual and bodily nourishment to a foodstuff valued for the

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