Nicholas Faith
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English
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This fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world's greatest brandy provides an authoritative account of how the much-loved spirit is produced and matured. Nicholas Faith was the world's leading authority on cognac. Here he explores the reasons for the spirit's complex character, and reveals its fascinating history. Cognac is an extraordinary and unparalleled collection of insights into the world's finest brandy. The first edition...
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English
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It is extraordinary enough that one small area in north-eastern France, on the northern edge of Europe's wine-growing regions, should be capable of producing the finest sparkling wine in the world, one of the few worth discussing as a wine and not merely as a sparkling beverage. Yet champagne fascinates not only wine lovers, but also historians – social, economic, political – linguists, physiologists, physicists and chemists. The long-awaited...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Discusses several aspects of extremely destructive fires of the late twentieth century, drawing from interviews with investigators, firefighters, and forensic scientists; also discusses human behavior in the face of fire emergency.