The book by a full university professor from the Faculty of Geography at UV, Juan Piqueras “Vine and wine in Spain. Antiquity and Middle Ages”, published by Publicacions de la Universitat de València, has been awarded with a special mention in the international book competition related to vines and wine, which is organised each year by Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin. The awards ceremony will take place on the 17th of October in Paris.
Wine culture is one of the most outstanding qualities of the Mediterranean region, not only because it forms a part of its diet, its celebrations and its religion, but also because it is a good which generates economic wealth. The book talks about vine cultivation and the wine trade in Spain during Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Mediterrenean and Western European region. There exists an inheritance of vine-producing which goes back to the Roman times. There also exists an international trade-network in which Spanish wines and raisins were the common merchandise in England, Germany, Flanders, France and even Italy. Viticulture and oenology were born in the Middle East in the third century B.C. Thanks to Fenician and Greek traders and colonists, viticulture spread towards the West and was brought to the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula around the VII century A.D.
Last update: 7 de august de 2016 07:00.
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