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    Published: 2023-07-25
    Vol. 71 No. 2 (2023)

    “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

    Dorota Dias-Lewandowska
    Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
    Section: Studies and Materials
    DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM71.2023.2.002

    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.

    Keywords:

    wine, taste, cellars, degustation, wine collecting

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    Dias-Lewandowska, D. (2023). “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. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 71(2), 151–165. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM71.2023.2.002

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