Still, don't shake before opening. With new wines being added and others being consumed, these reusable tags provide a very efficient means of organizing a cellar. The green grape label on one side indicates a young wine and the red grape represents an older wine. Wine Books by Canadians A Short History of Wine , by Rod Phillips. Wine is consumed by the destitute and homeless and by the powerful and wealthy.
Wine can be bought very inexpensively or at fabulous prices only the rich can afford.
Wine has been called a Gift of God and the work of Satan. It is a sign of civility and sophistication and a threat to social order. It is part of a healthy diet and it kills. So concludes the Introduction to this new 300 page, hardcover volume by Rod Phillips, a history professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. This kind of thoughtfulness peppers the book, but one might wish this history was actually a little more compelling.