The Legend of Wine: A Short Essay on Sentimental Oenology (French Edition) by Jean-Baptiste Baronian

The Legend of Wine: A Small Essay on Sentimental Oenology of Jean-Baptiste Baronian is an invitation to rediscover wine from a literary and sensitive perspective.
Far from technical manuals or tasting guides, this book aims to celebrate the wine as a cultural, emotional, and aesthetic experience.

For decades, many authors have referred to wine as a Fact of society, a symbol of friendliness and a the pleasure of savoir-vivre. But Baronian takes an additional step: it offers here the first true essay devoted to oenophilia in all its depth.

Between Erudition and fantasy, the author weaves a dialogue between Literature, art, and wine, uniting words with the sensuality of taste.
In the style of the great Alexandre Vialatte, Baronian, whom he admires, blends poetic references, reading memories, and evocative images of Bacchic happiness.
His elegant, sometimes playful style pays tribute to a art of living where tasting becomes contemplation.

The book reads like a Declaration of love for wine and its symbolic dimension: wine that connects, inspires, soothes, and exalts.
This is a reflection on the Culture of Bacchus, where the vine becomes a Literary and philosophical motif, the mirror of the human soul.

This A small essay on sentimental oenology will appeal as much to the enlightened amateurs that the readers who love literature and subtle emotions.
He will find his place in any library dedicated to the wine culture, to the lifestyle books and to the oenological pleasures.

🟣 About the author: Jean-Baptiste Baronian

Born in 1942 in Antwerp, Jean-Baptiste Baronian is a Belgian Francophone writer known for his eclecticism.
The author of around fifty works – novels, tales, essays, and anthologies – he distinguished himself with his studies on fantasy literature and on Georges Simenon, as well as by its Biography of Rimbaud in the collection Folio.
He is also the master builder of the Rimbaud Dictionary (collection) Bouquins, Laffont).
With The Legend of Wine, he abandons the romantic to celebrate the poetry of wine and the art of oenophilia, by blending literary reflection and sensory homage.

🟣 Book features

• Full title : The Legend of Wine: A Small Essay on Sentimental Oenology

• Author : Jean-Baptiste Baronian

• Editor : The Weather

• Collection : Literature

• Publication date : May 19, 1998

• Language : French

• Format : Paperback

• ISBN : 978-2-86853-219-0

• EAN13 : 9782868532190

• Number of pages : 136

• Dimensions 19 × 14.2 × 1.2 cm

• Weight : 150 g