Around the world in eighty wines

exploring wine one country at a time

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Michael Veseth: Around the world in eighty wines (2018)

217 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-4422-5736-8
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OCLC Number:
966363819

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Inspired by Jules Verne's classic adventure tale, Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg's home base, and follows Fogg's itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world's leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya's most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really! The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off …

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Subjects

  • Wineries
  • Travel
  • International travel
  • Wine and wine making

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