Redding C. / Реддинг К. - A history and description of modern wines / История и описание современных вин [1851, PDF, ENG]

A history and description of modern wines / История и описание современных вин

Год выпуска: 1851
Автор: Redding C. / Реддинг К.
Жанр: о вине
Издательство: Bacchus Press
Формат: PDF
Качество: Отсканированные страницы
Количество страниц: 440
Описание: В книге автор пытается беспристрастно, сжато, но в то же время комплексно и доступно донести до читателя информацию о вине и виноделии. Описана история вина, технология его получения, дана характеристика вин Франции, Испании, Португалии, Германии, Италии, Греции и других стран.

Circumstances apart from the present undertaking, called the Author to the Continent a considerable time before the first edition appeared. He was absent three years, the greater part of which was spent in the midst of the finest vine districts in the world. His attention was first called to the subject accidentally, while he had ample opportunities of observing the modes in which the culture of the vine was conducted, its fruit collected, and the product cellared. While his own observations were not few, he omitted no means of gaining information from individuals experienced in all relating to the vineyard and the vintage. Regarding the culture of the vine in the Peninsula, he has again to acknowledge himself under great obligations to several individuals who are residents there.
The Author hopes that he will not be found to have attached greater value to any particular class or quality of wines than the weight of evidence will sanction. He has endeavoured to be strictly impartial, and to compress all the information available in a moderate compass, without either overloading the subject or neglecting necessary illustration.
The additional observations and researches, which are considerable, have occasioned some little alteration of form in the arrangement of the chapters of the present edition. Time and commerce have introduced many changes, which it becomes necessary to record. Our own colonies are sending us importations, which bid fair, at no distant period, to be worthy of very particular notice.
It is hoped that the opinions here promulgated are just in the main, and that in discriminating between what is pure and genuine and what factitious, the truth is fairly sought. We must not only endeavour to be useful, but to be so honestly; and where the benefit is universal this should operate as an additional stimulus.