Fine wine: Seniors stay young by helping others – Times and Democrat
“Fine wine – they’re my fine wine,” said Agnes Glover, executive director of Cooperative Church Ministries of Orangeburg. “You know, wine just gets better as it ages.” Glover was speaking of Katherine “Kay” Estees Hughes and Roy
Budbreak Wine Festival set for this spring – Mount Airy News
area, when the Mount Airy wine dinners to a fine art show. Beginning April 28, participants can choose to take a tour of Mayberry or of area wineries. On April 29, the tours will continue and that evening will feature a fine wine dinner
Wine: The 8,000 Year-Old Story of the Wine Trade
The grape pre-dates humans, so it’s hard to know who discovered wine. However, archeological and other discoveries have made it easier to find this out since wine was used to meet spiritual needs. At least, this is the story that is usually told. But when civilization began about 8,000 years ago it didn’t take long for wine to move from an instrument of spirituality to a dominant economic power; all it took was the development of trade. Thereafter, the life and death of certain cultures often depended upon the fortunes of wine trading. Wine may have even sparked the earliest wars. Presenting its history from a commercial perspective, Wine reveals how the historically powerful wine trade has been a catalyst in many important developments throughout the ages such as sea mercantilism, early glass blowing, cooperage and cork production, trade fairs and festivals, advertising and promotion, the survival of civilization during the so-called Dark Ages, war financing, placating or pacifying troops, tranquilizing marauders, politics, literature and more.
Customer Review: Boring read
This was an extremely boring read, and read like a junior high text book. Way too much information, very few anecdotes. I can’t remember anything interesting to take away from the book, and am sad I plowed threw the whole thing (I was on vacation, and that was the only book I brought.) I am a wine specialist and educator, and found no inspiration in this. Find another wine history book.
Customer Review: An enjoyable
history of wine, civilization and commerce.
This is an enjoyable and highly informative book. I had no idea of the way that wine was so intricately tied up in the progress of civilization. The book covers a vast swath of history and almost the entire planet while describing the evolution of wine and the wine trade.
The author seems to hold few biases and gives an even-handed treatment to the various aspects of this story. The only bias that I detected was towards wine merchants. This is not surprising since he makes his history as a merchant very clear. But I was disappointed that the final sentence, and particularly the final phrase, of this book were so focused on the importance of wine merchants. I read this book as a result of an interest in wine and history. Wine merchants are a necessary part of the story, but from my point of view they’re just one cog in the wheel.
As another reviewer mentioned, the author’s writing style leaves a little to be desired. This is not a major fault. It’s just that I found his sentence structures and choice of words to be a bit awkward at times.
Although I’ve raised a couple of critical points, I still enthusiastically recommend this book. It’s a fairly quick read, is filled with easy-to-digest information, and pulls together many facets of the story of wine. If you like wine and history, this is the book for you.
