9000 Years of Wine - by Rod Phillips (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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 been venerated as a gift from the gods and cursed as threat to social order. It has been considered healthy to drink as well as hazardous to health. In 9000 Years of Wine, Rod Phillips surveys this long story and places wine in the broad sweep of history. He shows how it has been linked to big social, cultural, and economic swings, how it has been caught up in wars and revolutions, and how it has had an impact on the lives of men and women for millennia."--Publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Wine has a deeper history than any mere beverage. Present at the earliest recorded points of human history, wine has been present at the heights of sophistication and the depths of debauchery, an integral part of religious ritual and a free-flowing social lubricant. </p><p> This new edition explores the tourism and terroir-driven global industry of today while reaching as far back as Ancient Greece and Rome. On the way it stops at significant points in history including the birth of Charlemagne, Venice in the 17th century, trade in the Middle Ages and more. Celebratory and thorough, <i>9000 Years of Wine</i> never lets the scale of history - wars, fraud, blight, colonization, Prohibition - get in the way of a good story or notable bottle. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> Rod Phillips is the wine columnist for the <i>Ottawa Citizen</i> and the author of several books about wine including <i>Ontario Wine Country</i> and annual editions of <i>The 500 Best-Value Wines of the LCBO</i>. He is a contributor in several magazines including <i>The World of Fine Wine</i>, <i>NUVO</i>, <i>Wine Access</i> and more. He is a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa. </p>
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