300 years of Cape wine. (C. Louis Leipoldt)
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Tafelberg, 1974. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. some stains and marks to dustwrapper. Pencil gift inscription.
This is the facsimile edition of the 1952 original, with the addition of photographs and a biography of the author by W E G Louw. 17 chapters, numerous monochrome photographs.
Contents: The First Vintage; The Growing Industry; The First Constantia; Development in the Eighteenth Century; Cape Wine in Early Nineteenth Century; Weathering the Storm; The Day-Book of Jacob Cloete; The Industry in the Middle of the last Century; Strugging Against Adversity; The Industry Gets Expert Advice; Later Development; Restrictions and Prohibitions; Wine; Wine Grapes of the Cape; The Wine Districts; The Future.
The fascinating history of the wine industry at the Cape, told with the charm and knowledge that is typical of Leipoldt. "The Afrikaans poet C. Louis Leipoldt was a man of many parts. Besides being a medical doctor and for many years Editor of the South African Medical Journal - in which capacity he qualified as a journalist, a profession of which he was very proud and to which he lent a rare distinction - he was a poet, a novelist, an historian with a quite extraordinary knowledge of things African, a cook, who not only knew the haute cuisine of France and Western Europe in general, but particularly of South Africa, and practised it to the delight of his intimate friends, and a connoisseur of wines. Add to this his gifts as a raconteur and a personality of sometimes such startling originality that no one who knew him - if only slightly - can ever forget him. He was, in short, what the Italians of the Renaissance called 'uomo universale'. "The present book was one of many published in 1952 to commemorate the Tercentenary Festival of South Africa. Many of these, however interesting and valuable at the time they appeared, would hardly today qualify for re-printing. After having now read his 300 Years of Cape Wine for the first time - the original edition has today become an antiquarian item.
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