https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century daily 0.75 2019-10-29 https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century/roald-dahl monthly 0.5 2019-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1572378105077-5ROZZOUZZWV81UXP27DT/petrus-1982.png Twentieth Century - Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Bordeaux 1982 The 1982 vintage in Bordeaux is one of the most legendary, not least because it made the name of US wine critic Robert Parker. He was one of the few to praise it as one of the greatest Bordeaux vintages of the century and as the quality of the wines became apparent, Parker’s reputation was secured. In part, this was because the US was a young wine-drinking nation and drinkers needed a guru to guide them. It also helped that 1982 was the first “modern” Bordeaux vintage—more fruit forward and cleaner in style—which appealed both to Parker and the US palate. https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century/a-j-liebling-1904-1963 monthly 0.5 2019-07-23 https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century/sybille-bedford monthly 0.5 2018-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1509393043761-5U36BRKRKXME2WVJO2N4/phylloxera.jpg Twentieth Century - Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) - phylloxera Phylloxera is a louse brought over from North America in the mid-nineteenth century. It attacked and devastated European vines by eating their roots. Once a vine is affected with phylloxera, there is no cure. One can only imagine European wine regions and drinkers faced with the complete devastation of vineyards. A solution, however, was found: to graft rootstock from North American vines on to European vines. Only a handful of regions have never been affected with phylloxera, including South Australia, Chile, and Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1509394134167-F8XP60F8E0895K72OU2J/provence-vineyard.jpg Twentieth Century - Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) - Proven çal wine Bedford was writing about Provence in the late 1920s, its wines, like the region itself, historic but rustic and underdeveloped. The Roethlisberger family she mentions was indeed instrumental in making Bandol a high-quality red wine appellation, along with Domaine Tempier’s Lucien Peyraud. Some of the world's best rosés are made in Bandol, the grapes grown on steep terraces rising up from the Mediterranean, as well as full-bodied red wines based on the Mourvèdre grape. https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century/category/twentieth+century monthly 0.5 https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century/tag/sybille+bedford monthly 0.5 https://www.winewordsbook.com/twentieth-century/tag/A+J+Liebling monthly 0.5 https://www.winewordsbook.com/sixteenth-century daily 0.75 2017-10-14 https://www.winewordsbook.com/nineteeth-century daily 0.75 2017-12-07 https://www.winewordsbook.com/nineteeth-century/ambrose-bierce monthly 0.5 2017-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1512676390316-VER08HW77PW82EKHUA10/San-Francisco-Wine.jpg Nineteeth Century - Ambrose Bierce (1842-c. 1914) - San Francisco and Wine San Francisco is surrounded by wine regions, from Napa and Sonoma to the north and Santa Cruz and Monterey to the south. The city itself served as the distribution centre for those regions in the nineteenth century, and riotously ignored Prohibition. There are still wineries based in the city, and there are many great wine shops, bars, and restaurants. https://www.winewordsbook.com/nineteeth-century/guy-de-maupassant monthly 0.5 2017-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1508878634805-9NXYR138QOO9533OAJBN/perching-bar-champagne.jpg Nineteeth Century - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) - sweet champagne Champagne used to be much sweeter than it is today. In the nineteenth century, there were two trends: le goût anglais and le goût russe. The Russians liked their champagne extremely sweet, while the English preferred a drier style called Brut. After the Russian Revolution, the champagne market there collapsed and now Brut is the internationally popular style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1508882189813-W97HXXS10Q6B9NMZHNIK/maupassant-busch-bel-ami.jpg Nineteeth Century - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) illustrations for Bel-Ami drawn by Wilhelm M. Busch in 1962. Find out more about the German illustrator and cartoonist on one1more2time3. https://www.winewordsbook.com/nineteeth-century/charles-dickens monthly 0.5 2017-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1508214513544-SBE76OE2IG8XUJUMIQ7N/sherry-cobbler-dickens.jpg Nineteeth Century - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59dc5f8fd55b412cbda40547/1509058913965-1S40FC1S3XNTQEQ4T77I/sherry-cobbler.PNG Nineteeth Century - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - wine cocktails Wine is not the easiest beverage to use in cocktails, usually working best in party cocktails such as sangria. Dickens recorded the smoking bishop, which is a type of mulled wine served warm. But, as Dickens learnt with the sherry cobbler, the best wines for cocktails are fortified and aromatised. 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