Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

228 S. 216 z. T. farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Besitzstempel auf Vorsatz, sonst gut. - Myths and Legends -- Dionysus, God of Wine -- The Wild Vine -- The Origins and Travels of the Cultivated Vine -- The Gardens of Lagash, Kish and Nineveh -- The Wine List of Li Tai-bo -- Vines on Fujiyama -- Side Shoots in India -- And Noah Became Drunk -- Vine Bowers by the Nile -- Outpost Carthage -- Greek Wine-growers and Colonists -- Wine in Business and Politics: Rome -- Preserving the Heritage ; the Gift of the Magyars -- The Long March North and East Recession -- Across the Oceans -- Five Thousand Varieties of Noble Vines -- Wine-growers for Six Thousand Years -- Ancient Praises of the Vine -- An Ass and Vine Pruning -- Viticulture Promotes Wine Science -- The Training of Vines -- With Hoe, Mattock and Spade -- Gods, Heroes, and the Magic of Manure -- Persistance and Change in the Wine-grower's Year -- The Enemy in Many Shapes -- What Can the Year Bring? -- Guards and Vintage Law -- Dn Spätlese, Auslese and Obliging Fungi -- What Tubs Can Tell -- Wine without Alcohol: Table Grapes and Sultanas -- With Feet, Basketwork, Lever and Screw -- The Must is Weighed -- Harvest Home -- The Wine Sings -- Antique Secrets of the Cellar -- All Kinds of Wines in Old and New Times -- Our Debt to Dom Pérignon -- Did Falstaff Drink Sekt? -- Firewater -- In Praise of Coopers -- Barrels as Big as Houses -- The Cellar and Its Law -- Woe to the Adulterator -- Vinum faecatum -- Bottles of All Shapes and Colours -- Colourful and Informative Labels -- Great Wines, Wise Drinkers. ISBN 0852424914