Wine Making and It's Journey Through Time.
"Back of the wine is the vintner, and back through the years his skill, and back of it all are the.
vines in the sun and the rain.and the Master's will"(Palmer 12). Wine weaves in with human.
history from it's very beginnings, as few, if any other products do; wine alone is charged with.
sacramental meaning, and with healing powers; indeed with a life of it's own. However, there.
would be no wine were it not for the ".farmer and artist, drudge and dreamer, hedonist and.
scientist, alchemist and accountant - the wine maker, who is all these things, and has been since.
before the Middle Ages" (Johnson 7). The primary concerns of the Renaissance winemaker were.
the understanding and appreciation of that which his product came: grapes; the method of.
blending art and science to produce two infallible processes: the vine growing process and the.
wine making process; and the awareness of the history of his trade, "For one cannot know where.
he is going if he does not know where he has been".
The Wine-Grape Vine is a member of a family of climbing woody plants with relations all over.
the northern hemisphere; about 40 of them close enough to be placed in the same botanical genus.
of Vitis. It's specific name, vinifera, means wine-bearing. Cousins include Vitis rupestris (rock-.
loving), Vitis riparia (from river banks), and Vitis aestivalis (summer-fruiting), ".but none of.
them have the same ability to accumulate sugar in it's grapes up to about one-third of their.
volume (making them among the sweetest of fruit), nor elements of fresh-tasting acidity to make.
their juice a clean and lively drink. The combination of these qualities can alone belong to Vitis.
vinifera, whose natural territory (Since the Ice Ages when it was drastically reduced) is a band of.
the temperate latitudes spreading westwards from the Persian shores of the Caspian Sea as far as.