Foot Trodden Portugal and the Wines
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Foot Trodden Portugal and the Wines That Time Forgot is a stunning book on one of Europe’s top wine-producing countries. Portugal’s rich wine culture dates back at least two millennia. Its vineyards teem with fascinating native grape varieties and its cellars harbor heritage wine styles and ancient techniques (including foot treading in stone troughs) that have died out elsewhere.
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About Foot Trodden Portugal and the Wines That Time Forgot
Foot Trodden Portugal and the Wines That Time Forgot is a stunning book on one of Europe’s top wine-producing countries. Portugal’s rich wine culture dates back at least two millennia. Its vineyards teem with fascinating native grape varieties and its cellars harbor heritage wine styles and ancient techniques (including foot treading in stone troughs) that have died out elsewhere.
Foot Trodden is a book for everyone who loves a good story, wine, Portugal, or modern social history—and for anyone who wants to dig deeper into Portuguese culture and the Portuguese soul. Written in an accessible, narrative style, this book is above all else about the people behind the wines: the challenges they faced, what drives them, and how they succeeded against the odds to put Portugal on the map.
With 80 specially commissioned photos, beautiful layout, and design, Foot Trodden is crammed full of detail and depth about the wines and winemaking, but it’s emphatically not a textbook or a Master of Wine study guide. You don’t need to be a wine geek or a history nut to enjoy it—this book is written for everyone.
Through eight chapters, Foot Trodden takes you on a journey from north to south, from the past to the future. The diversity of characters, landscapes, and wines will have you salivating for your next bottle of Portuguese wine—and dreaming of the moment when you visit these historic winemaking regions.
About Simon J Woolf
Simon J. Woolf is an award-winning wine and drinks writer. He is somewhat obsessed with orange wines and is considered to be an expert on the developing natural wine niche. He is the founder of The Morning Claret, an online wine magazine specializing in artisanal, natural, organic, and biodynamic wines and related issues, and is a columnist for palatepress.com. He contributes regularly to Decanter and Meininger Wine Business International and he’s also written for Punch Drink, Jancis Robinson, timatkin.com, Harpers online, and Catavino.net among others. He is a member of the Circle of Wine Writers.
