Contribute with Guardian Witness From medieval castles to massive music festivals, thermal waters to big-bodied red wines, historical river towns to lakeside beaches, Hungary is a great place to visit – particularly in summer.
Broadbent, like Rodenstock, expressed confidence that the sensory experience of consuming a bottle of wine trumped historical evidence.
According to Kane, Winery SF gives $75,000 a year to local charities like Project Open-Hand, which provides home-delivered meals, groceries and nutrition counselling to people living with HIV/AIDS, and has teamed up with SF Experiences, a San Francisco tour operator, to create an Urban Wine and Historical Tour that brings visitors to Treasure Island and shares a little of the city's wine history.
You can see this most clearly in the country's white wines, where historical styles have been revivified (literally in terms of their effect on the palate) in recent years so that they no longer lag behind the more celebrated reds.
But what about countries where the culture of wine is not historical?
Like many fermented foods and beverages, wine represents a historical method of nutrient preservation that relies on suppressing the growth of spoilage microorganisms in order to provide long-term storage.
For Fabio Bogo, who started a similar line of historical wines out of his home near Belluno in the Veneto region 13 years ago, the percentages are even higher.
At about $10 or $11 plus shipping and handling, they are not bargain basement bottles, and Mr. Lunardelli is proud of the historical wines he makes from a variety of local grapes.
Mr. Parker, by contrast, views wine less from a historical and cultural perspective and more from a hedonistic one.
"The wine bank is for historical research," Morini says.
