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Class Glass
Glassware has been known since Ancient Times, almost as long as wine has been cultivated. Later on, when the bottle was invented, a wine revolution began.
The whole of Italy in a bottle
The Guicciardini Strozzi family’s Vernaccia di San Gimignano is not only a fine wine, but also the fruit of a history going back to Dante, Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci; and coming back via Cinecitta, the island of Pantelleria where you’ll find Carole Bouquet and Rudolf Nureyev’s estate.
Johnnie Walker, the dandy who walks on bottles
It is exactly one century since Johnnie Walker strode onto the labels and advertisements of his whisky, fully decked out in the emblems of dandyism: redingote, gloves, a high silk hat and a pommel cane.
Robert Mondavi
The death of Robert Mondavi in California earlier this year marked the end of an era. This one man summed up all the drama entailed in the birth of a new wine region.
The Birth of the Great Wines of Bordeaux
Or how, thanks to forerunner Haut-Brion, a lonely and wild region became a sea of vines producing precious nectars.
Wine and the religions of the Book
Judaism, Islam, and Christianity maintain complex relations with wine. Their sacred texts have dedicated entire pages to the subject.
A bubbly story
In the beginning, was the bubble. No, that’s going too fast! Let’s start again. In the beginning, there was a ripe fruit, full of sugar, that met a team of microscopic, single cellular fungi known as yeasts.
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