The Wandering Vine : Wine, the Romans and Me.

ISBN:

9781472938411

Title:

Author:

Caplan, Nina.

Personal Author:

Caplan, Nina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Photographs -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- 1 England: Rootlessness -- 2 Champagne: Resilience -- 3 Burgundy: Rivalry -- 4 The Rhône:: Roots -- 5 Catalonia: Trade -- 6 Andalusia: Yearning -- 7 Sicily: Memory -- 8 Campania: Resurrection -- 9 Rome: Power -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Bibliography and Further Information.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Wine and wine making-Europe.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2018

Publication Information:

London :

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,

2018.

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Summary

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes should rot. Instead they ferment. What better magic potion could there be, to convey us to the past?' Impelled by a dual thirst, for wine and for knowledge, Nina Caplan follows the vine into the past, wandering from Champagne's ancient chalk to the mountains of Campania, via the crumbling Roman ruins that flank the river Rhône and the remote slopes of Priorat in Catalonia.She meets people whose character, stubbornness and sometimes, borderline craziness makes their wine great: an intrepid Englishman planting on rabbit-infested Downs, a glamorous eagle-chasing Spaniard and an Italian lawyer obsessed with reviving Falernian, legendary wine of the Romans. In the course of her travels, she drinks a lot and learns a lot: about dead conquerors and living wines, forgotten zealots and - in vino veritas , as Pliny said - about herself. In this lyrical and charming book, Nina Caplan drinks in order to remember and travels in order to understand the meaning of home. This is narrative travel writing at its best.

Author Notes

Nina Caplan is an arts, wine and travel journalist. She is the wine columnist of the New Statesman and also writes for The Times , Decanter , Condé Nast Traveller and others. She has been awarded the Louis Roederer International Food and Wine Writer of the Year, Louis Roederer International Columnist of the Year and Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year. In the past, Nina has been employed by publications including the Guardian and Time Out , but these days she wanders too much to remain deskbound. She lives in London and Burgundy.