Awards

• Winner of Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2014
• Winner of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best Book All Categories 2014
• Winner of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best Book All Categories 2014.

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Thoughtful and provocative, this book shows that the history of wine is as complex as the history of human society. --Esther Mobley Paul Lukacs's research is methodical, his content thorough and his prose vivid...There are...original ideas here, which place the history of wine in a fascinating social and cultural context of interest for connoisseur and general reader alike. Times Literary Supplement ... thoughtful history... The Independent ...entertaining, offbeat history of wine...a fascinating antidote to many romantic notions that have grown up around wine... Decanter ... a wonderful new book on the history of wine. www.quentinsadler.wordpress.com

In highly readable prose, Lukacs tells the story of winemaking's worldwide history, recounting such ever-fascinating stories as the discovery of champagne and the creation of phenomenally unctuous and costly wines from what appear to be overripe, rotten grapes. -- Booklist Noted American oenophile Lukacs tells the story of wine over eight millenniums and around the globe. Themes of interest to oenophiles, from wine's longtime disrepute in North America to England's love affair with Bordeaux, and fascinating details-for instance, the unearthing of 26 casks of wine in King Tut's tomb-heighten the pleasure of this engrossing narrative. A richly readable and authoritative addition to the literature of wine. -- Kirkus Reviews Just when it seemed that there was nothing new to be said about wine, Paul Lukacs tells an intriguing and original tale that is thoroughly enjoyable reading. -- Mark Kurlansky, author of Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man and Salt: A World History Rather than an eternal cultural verity, wine is the product of innovative discontinuities, according to this flavorful history.... [Lukacs's] absorbing treatise shows just how much the grape's bounty owes to human ingenuity and imagination. -- Publishers Weekly Thoughtful and provocative, this book shows that the history of wine is as complex as the history of human society. -- Esther Mobley - Wine Enthusiast Lukacs, well aware that his subject is often clouded with pretense, writes with an eye for pungent detail. -- The New Yorker Fascinating. -- Eric Asimov - New York Times

Thoughtful and provocative, this book shows that the history of wine is as complex as the history of human society. --Esther Mobley

Fascinating. -- Eric Asimov Lukacs, well aware that his subject is often clouded with pretense, writes with an eye for pungent detail. Thoughtful and provocative, this book shows that the history of wine is as complex as the history of human society. -- Esther Mobley Rather than an eternal cultural verity, wine is the product of innovative discontinuities, according to this flavorful history... [Lukacs's] absorbing treatise shows just how much the grape's bounty owes to human ingenuity and imagination. Just when it seemed that there was nothing new to be said about wine, Paul Lukacs tells an intriguing and original tale that is thoroughly enjoyable reading. -- Mark Kurlansky, author of Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man and Salt: A World History Noted American oenophile Lukacs tells the story of wine over eight millenniums and around the globe. Themes of interest to oenophiles, from wine's longtime disrepute in North America to England's love affair with Bordeaux, and fascinating details-for instance, the unearthing of 26 casks of wine in King Tut's tomb-heighten the pleasure of this engrossing narrative. A richly readable and authoritative addition to the literature of wine. In highly readable prose, Lukacs tells the story of winemaking's worldwide history, recounting such ever-fascinating stories as the discovery of champagne and the creation of phenomenally unctuous and costly wines from what appear to be overripe, rotten grapes.

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Paul Lukacs is the author of American Vintage and The Great Wines of America. A James Beard, Cliquot, and IACP award winner, he has been writing about wine and its cultural contexts for nearly twenty years. He is a professor of English at Loyola University of Maryland, where he directs the University's Center for the Humanities. He lives in Baltimore.

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