Not all of the fault can be found in reference books. Robert Parker , Hugh Johnson , Oz Clarke – all very good. But the wine – it’s not just tasting notes and professional terminology sommelier or wine-maker. Wine – it’s part of life. It is accompanied by social events and love the game, brightens up everyday and splash holidays. You can read, for example, special textbooks wine etiquette, but it is possible – just novels and stories about the life of heroes in everyday life are woven into the wine naturally and harmoniously. The truly human information about the wine-in-life may be only in fiction.

Personally, we have recently been gathering a “wine” library – a modern fiction and the classics, in which the topic of wine is quite a significant place. On some volume from our “wine” bookshelf – read our new review of the literature on wine at Fortvayne.
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The wine culture is imprinted in every sector of our civilization and for the sacred aspects related to the origins of agriculture, and to those of intoxication. This mysterious liquid, support efforts, to aid divination and healing for all evil, although in punitive and ungrateful in the excess, it has attracted many people with respect and consideration.

Legend attributes the “invention” of the wine to Noah, who was also the protagonist of the first intoxication. While we can not fully support this view, the fact remains that it still produces more wine in the vicinity of Mount Ararat. From these areas, the vine would take over northern Thrace, on its way, by the Phoenicians, from Syria to Greece, Italy, in Gaul and central Europe by Roman soldiers, who were the furthest reaches of the their immense empire.
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VISIT TO Espelt VITICULTORS

Building on the principle of Summer Vacation, and encouraged by the success with which the winery, the publicity makes it, and that he had recently tested the Kasumi , I went to Vilajuïga to visit.

Xavier was waiting for us, its commercial director, who showed us the facilities, took us to visit some of the wineries offering tasting and ended up with almost the entire range Espelt.
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Call me old fashioned.

There is something about the tradition and ritual of wine that I find oddly comforting.

I almost never come across a robust dry sherry by the glass in a restaurant ­ unless, of course, it’s a Spanish restaurant ­ but when I do I can hardly resist. This is a superb aperitif, but one that is hardly appreciated any more in this chardonnay-laden world.

The Domecq dry Manzanilla sherry recently crossed my desk, which reminded me of my passion for the dry sherries. Both the Domecq Manzanilla and “La Ina” (a dry fino) retail for about $15 a bottle. Try them with roasted almonds or Sevilla olives.
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Fantastic architecture Bodega Ysios enters the constellation of the most attractive sites of wine tourism to Spain. Winery Marques-de-Riscal Frank Gehry designed by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Bodega López de Heredia worked Zaha Hadid, the grand lady of the world of architectural deconstruction, and Bodega Ysios made the most futuristic and surreal architect in the world, Spaniard Santiago Calatrava.
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There are books that have a special significance. By the author-signed first editions of great classics, for example, as bibliophile equipped, of course. Among the books with the prominent role also includes books that have become established over many years on the textbook market. Lawyers are Brox, Medicus, call earlier semesters Flume, from the medical area, it resounds loudly Harms, Silbernagl and Pschyrembel, physicists insist on Demtroder, Bergmann / Schaefer and Tipler. Among the religious works of the leading best-selling classics include the Talmud, the Koran and the Bible. And so we are dealing here with a book of particular value, do it a kind of Bible: it is the German Bible, the foam winemaking.

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Wines of Spain by Jan Read

Wineries, regions and vintages are reviewed in this rather useful pocket guide written by veteran wine journalist Jan Read. He is probably the most experienced contemporary writer on Spanish wines and lives, breathes, tastes – and naturally – consumes them. The guide has been published at an ideal time, as Spain is leaving behind its past image as a country with a reputation for inexpensive and moderately priced wines, which left much to be desired, into a modern European winemaking country.
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Recipes from a Winery Chef

By Mary Evely

Published by Simi Winery
P. O. Box 698, Healdsburg CA 95448
Tel: 707 433 6981 Fax: 707 433 6253

Edited, designed and manufactured in the USA by Favorite Recipes Press
2451 Atrium Way, Nashville TN 37214

In her foreword to ‘The Vintner’s Table Cookbook’, Zelma Lang, Winemaker and President of Simi, pays tribute to the years of dedicated work which Simi Chef Mary Evely has put to good use in this out-of-the-ordinary cookbook. The observation that ‘The serious study of how wines pair best with different foods has, for the most part, been undertaken either haphazardly or intuitively.’ will find a sympathetic chord in the hearts of many wine lovers.
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In the foreword to this attractive coffee-table edition the prominent Italian wine expert, Burton Anderson recalls, ‘Italian restaurateurs voted Sassicaia ‘wine of the century’ by a wide margin, in a poll conducted by the magazine ‘Civiltà del bere’.
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By Tony Aspler
Warwick Publishing Group, Toronto, Canada
Canadian Distributor: General Distribution Services, Etobicoke, Canada
Order Number (Ontario and Quebec 1-800-387-0141)
Order Number (North-western Ontario and all other provinces 1-800-387-0172)
US Distributor: LPC Group Chicago. Order Number 1-800-626-4330

Ezra Brant, renowned Canadian wine taster and writer (sound familiar?) is the chief protagonist in this drama on the Douro. A cocktail of sleuthing and slurping, the book makes ideal holiday reading, especially if detective fiction is amongst your other passions – wine being naturally first and foremost.
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