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- Title
"Strongly spice-scented, young, good". Ways of Classifying Wine and the Change in the Assortment of Polish Nobles' Cellars in the second half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.
- Authors
Dias-Lewandowska, Dorota
- Abstract
This article focuses on cellar inventories and notes (on the quality, taste and age of the liquors) from the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century that could be used to identify changes in the assortment of wines and to characterise the language of wine description. It can be assumed that while the assortment of nobles' cellars was subject to quite dynamic change and successive expansion in the 19th century, the taste qualities of wines themselves did not undergo such a rapid revolution. The knowledge of wines, their medicinal properties, and the types of wines which were to be considered good, was still firmly rooted in the past, and the preferred tastes were consistent with the dietary tradition of the time, though opposed to new culinary trends.
- Subjects
INVENTORIES; LIQUORS; WINES; NINETEENTH century; FLAVOR
- Publication
Quarterly of the History of Material Culture / Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 2023, Vol 71, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0023-5881
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.23858/KHKM71.2023.2.002