"The Secrets of Wine" - Book of the month August 2024
The book "The Secrets of Wine" written by Yves-Marie Berce consists of 30 short essays related to wine.
It is a suitable book to be read on holiday and is aimed at those who are curious about the presence of wine from history to the present.
We learn from the book interesting things such as:
It is a suitable book to be read on holiday and is aimed at those who are curious about the presence of wine from history to the present.
We learn from the book interesting things such as:
- about the oldest wines in the world,
- about Napoleon's wine (Chambertin),
- about how retsina wine is made and where the taste for it came from,
- about how vineyards appeared in Chile,
- about how the English invented Port wine,
- about Empress Josephine's passion for Medoc wine,
- about the wine that George Washington liked
- about how Thomas Jefferson came to discover the wines of Provence and Cotes du Rhone.
Chapters:
- Introduction
- The first wines and the sacred wines
- Caucasus: the small history of the oldest wines in the world
- Wines for popes at the crossroads
- Valuable Malvasia wines
- "East, east, east", the famous muscat of Montefiascone
- How to drown in wine or about another legend
- The wines of Burgundy, wines of monks and dukes
- Bordeaux varieties
- The ascent of Saint-Emilion
- Parisian wines
- The Poetical Travels of Bacchus in Anjou
- Madeira wines, an Anglo-American fashion
- Henry IV and the wine lovers of Arbois
- Latin America, the new world, the new wines
- Catherine of Braganza and the emergence of Port wine
- Let's toast a Tokaj, a long story of trade and war
- Short story of a discreet variety, Condrieu
- Champagne, with or without bubbles
- The Duke of Richelieu and the arrival of Bordeaux wines at Versailles
- The vineyard from North America
- Duke of Wellington - promoter of Portuguese table wines
- Empress Constance's wine, the taste from the end of the world
- The return from the Indies, the adventure of traveling wines
- The secular originality of Italian wines
- The empire of English tastes and whims
- A Jurancon 93 in golden corn colors
- Survival of vines free from phylloxera
- The wine you can go crazy with
- Bad wines, made by chance
- The fun in the pubs
Reasons to read the book: you will learn a lot of short stories about wine and controversial characters from history.
Where you can find the book: the book can be found in Cărturești bookstores and online, on Cărturești.ro website
Carmina Nițescu
Winesday.ro & Winesday App
Where you can find the book: the book can be found in Cărturești bookstores and online, on Cărturești.ro website
Carmina Nițescu
Winesday.ro & Winesday App