By Nina Caplan
In her lyrical and captivating travelogue The Wandering Vine, award-winning foodstuff and go back and forth author Nina Caplan is going looking for the founding myths of our wine-loving tradition. From the chalky terroirs of Champagne, the place status winemakers produce the most costly bottles on hand on the earth, to the rocky outcrops of Spain, through plucky English vineyards at their mere beginnings and sleek craftsmen utilising historical equipment of winemaking in Roman amphorae, she blends heritage with own discovery, uncovers Jewish customs and Roman, and, after all, pairs superb wine with scrumptious food.
Like Helena Attlee's The Land the place Lemons Grow, this can be a new departure in gastronomical writing with a profound experience of position, replete with the sounds, smells and tastes of ecu tradition. heritage readers will locate a lot to please them the following, as will gourmets and armchair visitors. Nina Caplan indicates us we must always give some thought to wine as indivisible from our realizing of civilisation, and demonstrates that this occasionally humble, occasionally rarefied drink bargains a window on our prior and into ourselves. this can be narrative go back and forth writing at its absolute best.
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