The biblical patriarch Noah, said to have planted the first vineyard after surviving the Flood, lies drunken beside a wine barrel. This marble relief of his moment of shame was created by the fourteenth-century Florentine artist Andrea Pisano >>> Next

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Seven thousand years of wine
Excerpt from Najmieh Batmanglij's "From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table"

August 28, 2006
iranian.com