Bøker av Michael Karam

An ancient region, where wine has been produced for millennia and who's countries have experienced and continue to experience turbulent times, yet where wonderful wines are produced by keen artisans. This is the first guide to bring with wines of these countries together and explore their similarities and differences.

Tears of Bacchus relates the story of wine in the Middle East, essentially Lebanon and Syria, from the dawn of time to the present day in the form of a linear series of essays written in various "voices"--historian, archaeologist, novelist, wine writer, journalist, curator, anthropologist. It charts wine's influence on early civilizations and cultures, religion and mythology, before heading off into the Byzantine, Medieval Ottoman and ultimately the modern era, an age defined by strife and instability. With an introduction by Hugh Johnson.