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For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World´s Most Ancient Wine Culture
Alice Feiring
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Description for For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World´s Most Ancient Wine Culture
Hardback. This is Alice Feiring's emotional tale of a remarkable country and people who have survived religious wars and Soviet occupation, yet managed always to keep hold of its precious wine traditions. Embedded in the narrative is even hope that Georgia has the temerity to confront its latest threat - modernization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 19 recipies, 22 images, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1F; WBXD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 390.
In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low tech of centuries past. She was smitten, and she wasn't alone. This country on the Black Sea has an unusual effect on people; the most passionate rip off their clothes and drink wines out of horns while the cold-hearted well up with tears and parse emotional toasts. Visiting winemakers fall under Georgia's spell and bring home qvevris (clay fermentation vessels) while rethinking their own techniques. ... Read more
In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low tech of centuries past. She was smitten, and she wasn't alone. This country on the Black Sea has an unusual effect on people; the most passionate rip off their clothes and drink wines out of horns while the cold-hearted well up with tears and parse emotional toasts. Visiting winemakers fall under Georgia's spell and bring home qvevris (clay fermentation vessels) while rethinking their own techniques. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
390g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612347646
SKU
V9781612347646
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About Alice Feiring
Alice Feiring is an internationally known author, journalist, and essayist who lives in New York City. She has been the wine correspondentfor Wall Street Journal Magazine and Time, and now freelances for the New York Times, Wine and Spirits, and Omnivore. Winner of both the James Beard and the Louis Roederer wine writing awards, Feiring is the author of Naked ... Read more
Reviews for For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World´s Most Ancient Wine Culture
By the time you've picked up this book, Georgian wine will be internationally known
thanks in no small part to Alice Feiring, who has put her passion and pen behind it. What do God, Stalin, and truth have to do with great wine? Follow her on her journeys into a rich and fascinating culture and find out.
Christine Muhlke, executive ... Read more
thanks in no small part to Alice Feiring, who has put her passion and pen behind it. What do God, Stalin, and truth have to do with great wine? Follow her on her journeys into a rich and fascinating culture and find out.
Christine Muhlke, executive ... Read more