History of Wine in Africa and Asia - Includes African, Persian, and Indian Wines, and Chinese, Russian, and Turkish Wines

This volume contains a comprehensive guide to historical winemaking in Africa, Persia, India, China, Russia, and Turkey. A fantastically detailed and thoroughly interesting treatise, 'The History of Wine in Africa and Asia' is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in wine, and is not to be missed by collectors of related literature. Contents include: 'Winemaking', 'African, Persian and Indian Wines', 'Cape Wines', 'Boer Reverence for Precedent', 'In North Africa', 'Persia the Nursery of Wine-Making', 'Wine vs. the Koran', 'Persian Grapes', 'Selling Wine by the Pound', 'Shiraz', 'Intoxication', 'The Wines of India', etc. Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on winemaking.