Vintage : a history of wine /

Vintage : a history of wine /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Johnson, Hugh, 1939-
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : Public Media Video, 1988.
Description:	4 videocassettes (116 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language:	English
Subject:	Wine and wine making -- History. Wine and wine making. History.
Format:	Video cassette Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11388451

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Other authors / contributors:	WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) Malone Gill Productions. Channel Four (Great Britain) Banfi Foundation.
Notes:	Produced by WGBH Boston and Malone Gill Productions in association with Channel 4, London. Funding for the series was provided by the Banti Foundation, philanthropic arm of Banti Vintners. Each program is 29 minutes long. Camera, Chris King ; film editors, Hugh Newsam, Gerry Branigan ; music, Max Early. Hosted by Hugh Johnson. VHS format.
Summary:	Thirteen 29 minute programs on the history of wine.

Table of Contents:

Volume I: First pressing, the origins of wine
Drinking the god, wine & religion
Empire of the vine, wine in antiquity
Northern limits, wine in Germany
Volume II: Precious but perishable, medieval wine
Slopes of gold, Burgundy's cote d'Or
Sipping stars, the story of champagne
Volume III: Wine and war, madeira and port
Power of the purse, bordeaux wines
The devastator, phylloxera
Volume IV: The migrating wine, wine in Australia
The grape goes west, California wines
Vin nouveau, today and tomorrow.