Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned and low-key, Johnson is an ideal host for the series, which first appeared on Britain's innovative Channel 4. The author of a standard encyclopedia of wine, as well as an invaluable World Atlas of Wine, Johnson is Britain's foremost wine critic; he is admired by his peers as much for his prose as for his palate...
...beverage, of course, is wine, which is the subject of a convivial yet scholarly 13-part series that appears on public television this month. In lesser hands, such a project could have been a mind-numbing compendium of trivia about Brix levels and Appellations Controlees. As written and narrated by Hugh Johnson, Vintage: A History of Wine is an excursion into cultural history, enlivened by the author's pithy insights on ritual, commerce and warfare...
...tracing wine's history, from its discovery more than 4,000 years ago in what is now Soviet Georgia to its potential for future greatness in California and Australia, Johnson offers some provocative comparisons. For example, he describes the monastic orders, which preserved viticulture in the Dark Ages, as "forerunners of modern multinational corporations," with outposts (abbeys and priories) scattered throughout Europe...
...much heavier, and if Pepsi has not exactly replaced vodka as the national beverage, it is widely available. Cooperative restaurants enjoy a fairly brisk business, at least among those who can afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...
...farmers to adopt organic growing methods and to handle the processing of their products so they can keep more of the 75 cents of every food dollar that goes to middlemen. Hightower has also urged growers to diversify into potentially lucrative crops ranging from pinto beans to blueberries to wine grapes. He has even encouraged farmers to raise crayfish in their ponds...