Cappadocian Wines

This book is probably the oldest wine guide. Oldest, not as publication but as the content. it makes us travel in a land of vvonders like Cappadocia that is not only known for its amazing geological formations but also for its very old history of wine. it explains the 5000 year old journey of grape production and wine making in Cappadocia. it makes us travel through Bronze Age, Hittites also known as a wine empire, the period of Alexander the Great and Byzantine times. it brings us then to present, to a true revival, a rebirth from its ashes of wine culture in the region in the last three decades. it telis us how to pair Cappadocian wine and cheeses with food, it gives indications about wine routes of Cappadocia.Besides being a historical guide, the book makes a broad inventory of wines of Cappadocia, it takes a note about present to leave some documents for the future.What makes this book different than many other similar publications is that probably for the first time in the world a wine guide is also presented with a wine map about the region that it concerns.