The Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea covers around 470 square kilometres and is located off the Ionian coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia, Turkey). According to legend, the Argonaut and first king of Samos, Ankaios, brought the vine to the island in 1,000 BC. The mathematician Pythagoras (580 to 496 BC), to whom the mathematical theorem named after him is attributed, the mathematician Aristarchus (~310-250 BC), who was convinced of the heliocentric system with the sun as its centre, and the philosopher Epicurus (341-270), the founder of the doctrine of the needless, wise and withdrawn enjoyment of life (Epicureanism, later Hedonism), were born here.
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The glossary is a monumental achievement and one of the most important contributions to wine knowledge. Of all the encyclopaedias I use on the subject of wine, it is by far the most important. That was the case ten years ago and it hasn't changed since.
Andreas Essl
Autor, Modena