[PDF] Verum De Vino The Truth About Wine eBook

Author : Jean-Claude Hermans
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1387600354

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VERUM DE VINO allows professionals, as well as amateurs and students, to approach the study of enology as eagerly as they contemplate their next tasting. Readers can learn what region in the world produces the very best wines, and even the slimming virtues of some varieties. The author informs us of the health benefits of wine, and shares the secrets of how to avoid the dreaded "wine headache." This book provides useful information in the literature of wine. It captures the essence of wine's true art alchemy in a clear and detailed way, while, at the same time, providing background and depth that is engaging and entertaining.

Author : Cain Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 131749184X

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Does this Bonnes-Mares really have notes of chocolate, truffle, violets, and merde de cheval? Can wines really be feminine, profound, pretentious, or cheeky? Can they express emotion or terroir? Do the judgements of 'experts' have any objective validity? Is a great wine a work of art? Questions like these will have been entertained by anyone who has ever puzzled over the tasting notes of a wine writer, or been baffled by the response of a sommelier to an innocent question. Only recently, however, have they received the serious philosophical attention they deserve. Touching on issues in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and aesthetics, this book provides a clear and engaging discussion of the philosophical significance of wine that will be accessible to all wine lovers, specialists and non-specialists alike. The author offers throughout a sustained defence of the objectivity of wine judgements, a demystification of the nature of expertise, and a theory of the aesthetic value of wine and its appreciation.

Author : André L Simon
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2020-04-11
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Addressing a meeting of total abstainers, at Manchester, a short time ago, the Bishop of Lincoln deplored the fact that teetotalism was making no headway. The common sense of the race is asserting itself and condemns with equal justice all excesses; intemperance in drink is universally deprecated and the intemperance in speech and statement of total abstinence advocates, "whose antagonism to alcohol has fossilized into superstition," is equally condemned by all sober-minded people. The immense majority of brain-workers, in this as in all other civilized countries, drink wines and spirits, and there must be many who would like to know something more reliable about alcohol than what is to be found in the numerous publications issued by total abstinence associations. There has not been any comprehensive work upon wines and spirits published in England for many years, and the Committee of the Wine Trade Club have decided to issue a series of text-books to supply the public as well as wine-merchants with authentic facts and figures about wines and spirits. The present volume is the first of these text-books; it consists of six chapters which correspond to the six lectures dehvered by the Wine Trade Club at Vintners' Hall during the winter of 1911 - 1912. It may be said to form an introduction to the study of the subject; it contains a strictly correct but very short description of the history of the wine trade in England and general information on the growing of vines, the art of wine-making, the science of distillation and the effects of alcohol upon the human body. Some will be satisfied with the superficial knowledge gained from the following pages, but many more may be induced thereby to take a keener interest than hitherto into a branch of commerce the study of which offers a larger and more varied field of research than any other.

Author : Warren R. Johnson
Publisher : Second Harvest Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Reference
ISBN :

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Select Wine Bibliographies includes published works from the 1600s through 2023 All listings are works published in the English language. Each book includes an ISBN (when available), the format (hardcover, softcover, digital, or manuscript), as well as any notes that may list subsequent editions or other pertinent information. Thirteen major subjects are included with over 2300 listings. The goal is to first list first editions in hardcover when possible; otherwise, if later editions are more relevant, they become the primary source. Many of these works may have been published in additional formats. Thirteen major subjects are included with over 2300 listings.

Author : Orange Hippo!
Publisher : OH
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 180069542X

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A oenophile's guide to all things wine. Red, white, sparkling or rosé – arguably no other alcoholic drink has had more impact on our society than wine. From its earliest iterations in earthenware jars all the way to the bottles we find lining supermarket shelves today, it has evolved from its use in religious rites along with culture, diet and society as a whole. And with literally billions of litres drank worldwide, our love of fermented grape juice shows no signs of waning. This little book gets to the heart of our love affair with wine. After taking a tour through a history of its evolution through the centuries, it delves into the nitty-gritty of production before we taste the fruits of all that labour – in moderation of course – and learn all about drinking (and hopefully appreciating) this most esteemed of beverages. As well as a whole caseload of quaffable facts and famous sayings about the nectar of the gods, there is also a glossary of useful wine terminology for the aspiring connoisseur, just in case you need a handy reminder during a particularly arduous tasting session... "A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world." Louis Pasteur "My only regret in life is that I didn't drink more wine." Ernest Hemingway Vitis vinifera is the principal wine-producing plant, and the majority of the world's wine comes from varieties of this species, mostly because of its high sugar content.