Wine

From the religious rituals of the ancient Greeks and Romans to the global wine culture of the present day, this expert and entertaining book covers over three thousand years of wine history. Daniel Deckers helps the reader become familiar with winegrowing and its regional conditions, the history of the wine trade and wine consumption, and, last but not least, wine as an endless source of enjoyment and inspiration. The world of wine, as this delightful introduction demonstrates, always provides an enlightening reflection of each time period. Daniel Deckers is an editor at the Frankfurt Allgemeinen newspaper and a lecturer on the history of winegrowing and wine trade at the Hochschule Geisenheim University (Rheingau). C.H.Beck has also published Deckers’ Papst Franziskus. Wider die Trägheit des Herzens. Eine Biographie (Pope Francis. Against the Inertia of the Heart. A Biography, 2015).