Wine – a wonderful introduction

January 19, 2010 Wine – a wonderful introduction

“The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.” So wrote the Greek historian Thucydides in the fifth century B.C.,and indeed,wine-making is as old as civilization itself.

Here’s a great place to start your wine reading. Well done NYT.

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