Monks and Wine

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covered boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper. 208 pages. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Monks and Wine is an original, authoritative and elegant study of the one really important area of wine-making that has been almost entirely neglected to date. For well over a thousand years almost all the biggest and best vineyards were almost all the biggest and best vineyards were owned and cultivated by monks. These monastic orders most likely saved viticulture when barbarian invasions destroyed the Roman Empire. Illustrated throughout. Two publishers photos laid in. Interior and boards clean and crisp, dust wrapper lightly rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar.