"Humans have had a complicated history with wine for thousands of years. It has been a banal item in the daily diet and treated as a liquid treasure. It has bee
This book examines how Napa became a pre-eminent site for the production of great and sometimes iconic wines in a short space of time. Unlike its Old World coun
Wine: A social and cultural historyof the drink that changed our livesis a wine history with a difference. Most histories of wine (like HughJohnson's The Story
The link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity. The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture brings together a newly compreh