Inventing Wine - Paul Lukacs

Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures by Paul Lukacs tells the enticing story of wine's transformation from a source of spiritual and bodily nourishment to a foodstuff valued for the wide array of pleasures it can provide. He chronicles how the prototypes of contemporary wines first emerged when people began to have options of what to drink, and he demonstrates that people selected wine for dramatically different reasons than those expressed when doing so was a necessity rather than a choice. Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those made in earlier eras.