Tag: Wine

January 14, 2025

Wine and Space Architectural Design for Vinotheques, Wine Bars and Shops

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Free Download Wine and Space: Architectural Design for Vinotheques, Wine Bars and Shops edited by Denis Duhme, Katrin Friederichs, Heinz-Gert Woschek
English | April 24, 2015 | ISBN: 3955532410 | True PDF | 144 pages | 21.7 MB
This publication takes a look at the rooms where wine is tasted and enjoyed. It highlights a variety of projects, ranging from winemakers’ tasting rooms and salesrooms to more unusual shop concepts and successful examples taken from the gastronomy sector. To provide a glimpse into the development of a design, the authors engage intensively with the architects and contractors to explore the following questions: How did those involved contribute and combine their ideas? What story is told by the project as it begins to take shape? What kind of customers does it appeal to and how should they react to it?

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January 14, 2025

A Thirst for Wine and War The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front

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Free Download A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front (Intoxicating Histories) by Adam D. Zientek
English | February 13, 2024 | ISBN: 0228019923, 0228019931 | True EPUB/PDF | 288 pages | 7.6/18.7 MB
Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each day. The wine ration was intended to sustain morale in the trenches, making the men more willing to endure suffering and boredom. The army also supplied soldiers with doses of distilled alcohol just before attacks to increase their ferocity and fearlessness. This strategic distribution of alcohol was a defining feature of French soldiers’ experiences of the war and amounted to an experimental policy of intoxicating soldiers for military ends.

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November 28, 2024

The Wine of Wisdom

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Free Download The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam by Mehdi Aminrazavi
English | October 1, 2013 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00G3E7LRM | 476 pages | PDF | 3.16 Mb
The intoxicating message of Khayyam’s famous Ruba’iyyat created an image of exotic Orientalism in the West but, as author Mehdi Aminrazavi reveals, Khayyam’s achievements went far beyond the intoxicating message within these verses. Philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and mystic – his many different identities are examined here in detail, creating a coherent picture of this complex and often misunderstood figure.

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September 29, 2024

Stalin’s Wine Cellar [Audiobook]

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Free Download Stalin’s Wine Cellar (Audiobook)
English | August 18, 2020 | ASIN: B089ZJ355T | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 16m | 268 MB
Author: John Baker, Nick Place | Narrator: Simon Burke
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin’s secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; this is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine.
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across.

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