You don’t need a time machine to be transported to a distant era, all it takes is a magic potion made from pressed grapes. Through wine, long-lost historical periods come back to life.
Dusty roads once crossed by bandits on horseback, the first printed books, the characters of the Decameron, and further back, the bacchanals of ancient Rome, the wine at the wedding in Cana, the wine of the Egyptian god Osiris, all the way to the vine planted by Noah after surviving the flood.
Roberto Cipresso, world-renowned winemaker, calls them “wines of emotion”, wines that tell a story with every sip. Like a treasure hunter, he has crossed lands and seas, climbed over the walls of abandoned gardens, and ventured into the caves of Mount Ararat in search of the oldest vines, the forgotten ones, growing in places untouched by modern viticulture. His mission: to bring back to life wines that embody the very essence of human history and nature.
It’s a journey through wine, a novel where passion, knowledge, experience, honest opinions, abandoned paths and new directions all intertwine. Not only the poetry of unusual, unexpected, and precious wines, chased with the determination of a lover, but also the clarity of understanding what wine should be, and above all, what it should never be, in the moments that accompany our lives
