Expanded edition · 51 PAGES
Wine, Through Time
A researched journey through wine, people, and place
Explore archaeological evidence, trade, labor, changing tastes, wine regions, and the technologies that shaped the bottle. Includes a chronology, object studies, worked reading examples, and linked sources.
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WHAT YOU WILL FIND
A thoughtful
companion.
51 pages including the cover, contents, and references. Worksheet pages, where included, are designed to print at actual size.
- A reader's invitation
- What does "the first wine" mean?
- A Georgian pottery fragment
- Wine beside the Nile
- The Greek symposium
- Inside a Roman wine farm
- A vineyard is a made landscape
- Burgundy and the naming of small places
- Riesling: a name, a planting policy, a reputation
- Tokaj: selected berries and a protected landscape
- The Douro: trade written into a valley
- Champagne and the work of making a style repeatable
- Jerez: the cellar becomes part of the recipe
- The Cape: ships, vineyards, and the people behind them
- Bordeaux, 1855: a commercial hierarchy becomes heritage
- The microscope changes the question
- A vine with two histories
- Malbec crosses the Andes
- Australia: a collection of cuttings, a change of taste
- Prohibition: the vineyard and the law
- New York: research, access, and a regional identity
- A new region takes shape: Marlborough
- Paris, 1976: reputation meets the covered glass
- The bottle and the closure: small objects, long consequences
- A changing climate enters the archive
- A chronology to return to
- Read the next bottle's history
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