A classic collection of the acclaimed photographer's limited edition portfolios, now available in a gorgeous trade paperback edition.

    Among the numerous reproductions of Dalí’s paintings and drawings are several that he created expressly for this book. Then he has taken late-nineteenth-century French academic works and fifteenth-century miniatures depicting the wine-making process and altered them, giving them his own inimitable stamp. The results are unexpected, outrageous, and amusing. Large color reproductions of specific grapes and pictures of wine paraphernalia, such as bottles and labels, add an informative counterpoint to Dalí’s surrealistic visions.The text also treats wine on several levels. Part I of the book presents ”Dix Vins du Divin” (Ten Divine Dali Wines) by Max Gérard. In his entertaining and detailed descriptions of ten celebrated wines – the wine of Ay, Shiraz, the wine of King Minos, Lacrima Christi, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the Great Red Bordeaux, Romanée-Conti, Château d’Yquem, Sherry and California wines – he manages to convey the general history of wine since man first discovered the pleasures of fermented grape juice. In Part II, “Ten Gala Wines,” Louis Orizet regroups all the world’s wines into ten categories according to the sensations they produce: Wines of Joy, of Purple, of Aestheticism, of Dawn, of Sensuality, of Light, of Generosity, of Frivolity, of Veils, and of the Impossible. He includes botanical or chemical information on the growing of grapes and the making of wine, gastronomical notes on which foods go best with each wine, and a long section filled with practical advice on the storing, serving, and drinking of wine. Both parts are spiced with lyric passages and enriched by apt quotations from a variety of famous wine-loving authors.Baron Philippe de Rothschild, owner of the renowned Mouton-Rothschild vineyard, has contributed a poem on wine. And, to round out the volume, there is a general listing of the world’s wines and of French wines, accompanied by maps showing the geographical locations of the wine-growing areas.More than 140 illustrations, including 124 in full color