"Knowledge and popular flavor"
Saying that wine is culture has become a cliché, to which this surprising book gives true meaning.
It collects more than 6,500 proverbs around wine and its intoxicating effects. Accompanied by explanations, verses, couplets, literary fragments from various periods and profusely illustrated with a wide collection of engravings and vignettes on the subject.
Some comments about this book:
"The proverbs of wine and the vine becomes a masterpiece, of course, which should be browsed slowly, page by page, reflecting on the origin of each proverb with a glass of wine in hand and a friend with whom to comment"
Gonzalo Sun.
Epoch
"...only surpassed by Augusto Jurado's monumental Los refranes del vino y la vine, which contains no less than 6,234 beautifully edited sayings with allusive engravings. It is the best collection...besides wine deals with everything related to the vineyard, production, materials, sale, consumption, food science, abuse, containers, etc ... "
José de Jaime Gómez/Jose MQ de Jaime Loren
Cardenal Herrera-CEU University. PAREMIA Magazine
The sayings of the wine and the vine
- Size 24 x 32 cm.
- Printed in two colors on 120 gram first offset paper.
- Cardboard binding in embossed Geltex with stamping on the cover and spine .
- Dust jacket in Tintoretto of 250 grams in 4 colors.
- 400 pages.
- RRP: €49 (4% VAT included)
- Available in branch. Check conditions.
This book was selected to be handed out to the participants in the 1st José Galván National Prize for Artistic Binding, in the city of Cádiz.