Oz Clark, a British wine expert and best-selling author, began with the unexpected birth of wine in 6000 BC, and slowly took off its mystery until 20 14 fake wine swindler was jailed, which ended the book.
But what surprised me most was the translation skills of Li Wenliang, the translator of this book. Compared with most awkward translations on the market, The History of Wine in 8,000 Years is more colloquial and extremely comfortable to read!
This book is not rated on Douban. After reading the catalogue+preface, I silently gave 9 points.
Good books are worth inheriting, not to mention the history of wine.
Today, I'll tell you the outline of this book first. My favorite drinker must buy a book and read it while drinking. Just like watching a movie, you can always find fun.
1. Those wines from BC
The author arranged a feast of wine history for readers with humorous and rigorous brushwork.
It's hard to imagine how Georgians made wine in the 6th century BC.
In fact, the old winemaking method still exists today: crushed grapes are packed in beeswax soil, they sleep underground, and after half a year or a year, they are awakened by their owners.
Georgia is also an "alchemy furnace" for many Eurasian grape varieties.
The most interesting is the ancient Greeks. In this society where drinking and having fun for the first time, poets often mix wine with water at the ratio of 1:3 or even 1:20, and then drink it all at once.
Probably the wine mixed with water is easier to get drunk! The poet Ubros may have a deep understanding, otherwise he would not have written such a wine copy of "situational experience". I translated it into vernacular:
"1 cup for health preservation, 2 cups just right, 3 cups for nap, 4 cups for dizziness, 5 cups for madness, 6 cups for me not to get drunk, 7 cups for rampage, 8 cups for paralysis, 9 cups for vomiting into dogs, 10 cups for soul improvement ..."
A large number of canned wines appeared in the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. These wines are marked with year, producer and even winemaker. All that is needed is a fascinating wine review.
Phoenicians who didn't want to be vinedressers and winemakers were not good businessmen and explorers. They are really smart, taking the blue and thin mushrooms popular in Rome.
There are many wine writers in Rome, who spare no effort to promote wine culture and have gained more professional knowledge since then.
Roman writers tell you all about pruning, scaffolding, drainage, brewing, storage, tasting and even the management of vineyards. This mode of knowledge popularization is similar to our common training courses today.
We have all heard many fairy tales about wine. Author Oz? Clark avoids mentioning "poison", "savage drinking", "Noah built a vineyard" and "Dionysus" in his book.
These are all wine events in BC described in the wine history of 8,000 years.
Next, let's enter the AD. ..
2. omnipotent for two thousand years.
In the more than 2000 years after the AD, the author continued to count the famous wine events that were passionate, sad or wonderful one by one with a very clear timeline, and constantly took us into the maze.
But you will crack the code in this book-
Do you still drool when you watch it?
Drooling brings you into the19th century.
From the classification of Bordeaux wines in 1855 to 1863' s "Bloody Europe", to 19 14' s "Blood-stained vintage wine" and then to 1920' s "Prohibition Order" ...
In the mid-20th century, Bordeaux, France, opened the era of large flow, and famous villages and winery groups from all over the world also rose one after another.
At that time, "tetra pak" and "bagged wine" were popular in the market.
Burgundy's position in the world is gradually improving. More and more wine brands have surfaced, including 1976 "Paris trial" which shocked the world.
1978 Robert? Parker's wine democratization, Bordeaux year of 1982, 1987' s "Flying Winemakers" Tony, Brian, Michelle and Steven, 1990' s Cabernet Sauvignon, 19 1 the rise of garage wine, and Canada.
In 2000 AD, wine critics who were overwhelmed by "moldy cork" finally began to face up to the benefits of "screw bottle cap".
This 2000-year-old wine history is full of ups and downs, which is enough for you to open a bottle of old wine and explore slowly with a magnifying glass, as if you were there.
3. We after 8,000 years.
Nowadays, wine culture is becoming more and more popular, but it has never entered thousands of households. This road is really long. Alas!
Although there are more and more wine lovers and practitioners like me, we know little about the vastness of wine culture.
There are many books written by wine experts, all of which are worth reading. I will recommend them to you slowly.
In particular, we should warn wine tasters that drinking more wine can naturally increase the tasting experience, but don't forget that reading more wine books can make you more professional!
Whether writing or lecturing, Yan Ruyu in the book is the only magic weapon for you to capture readers or listeners.
This Oz? Clark's "Eight Thousand Years of Wine History" systematically sorts out trivial anecdotes that we usually hear, which is a textbook-level wine history.
I bought a lot of wine books in recent years, and many books have never even been opened. The reason why I wrote a book review of this history first and couldn't wait to recommend it to you must be my true love!
If you want to delve into the history of wine, you might as well travel to Georgia 8000 years ago with the author of this book!
I've been waiting for you there.
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Text/New Xiao Xin