This handsome volume pays homage to the humble grape's revered nectar This truly exceptional miscellany of anecdotes, facts, quotable quotes, and interesting stories celebrates wine in all its guises: from the origin of the toast (to prevent being poisoned at a dinner, it was customary for guests to tip part of their drink into their companion's glass) to the exact number of references to wine in the Bible (441) to the debate over whether Dom Perignon discovered bubbles, effectively inventing champagne, or simply started the tradition of blending the grapes in the drink he described as "like French Wine - Bernard Pivot od authora Bernard Pivot a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinuscz