Spirituality Of Wine

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Summary: An Interesting Slant on the Topic of Wine
Review: Tom Harpur approaches the topic of wine from a very Canadian and spiritual background. He's written many books and is a regular contributor to newspapers and television programs on topics of spirituality. The book is nicely put together with glossy pages (meant to look like parchment) full of photographs and insightful wine quotes from sources such as the bible, Winston Churchill, and an array of wine personalities. Harpur examines the very personal, and he would argue spiritual, relationship people have with wine and examines that relationship from ancient times right through to present day Canada. I feel the book is misfocused by trying to establish a universal link between wine and spirituality on the one hand while turning too much to the Canadian experience for examples and historical accounts. I think someone writing about this relationship from a wine background would have written a very different book and would probably have focused less on Canada and more on the chronological emergence of wine worldwide to show the development of the link with spirituality. I think that book would have made a stronger argument to the links Harpur describes without jumping to the Canadian experience so quickly. It's an interesting read with a nice presentation nonetheless.