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We can think of seismology, by way of analogy, as a scientific discipline that takes and interprets X-rays of the Earth.

There is, of course, a reason why we named the first series prepared for WAYANA BOOKS “Wine-Infused Literature Series.”

Turkey was introduced to what is now commonly known as “omnibus legislation-torba yasa” in the 1980s, though it wasn’t called that at the time.

It is impossible not to notice how technological developments over the last twenty years have influenced, and perhaps quietly mortgaged, our lives.

Robert Camuto is a writer whose work on the wine worlds of France and Italy I follow with genuine interest.

It was the summer of 2025. As usual, I was following developments in the wine world as closely as possible, selecting the news items that deserved to be shared in the WAYANA Bulletin and grouping together those that required commentary.

The idea that humans should simply subsist on whatever food their environment provided changed roughly eleven thousand years ago.

In the first two chapters of our series, we examined that exhilarating “first moment” when Samuel Pepys discovered “Ho Bryan” in a London tavern, and Robert Boyle’s observations on the chemical evolution of wine in sealed glass vessels.

The history of wine is not only the story of an agricultural transformation; it is also the history of narrative making. Every scientific model explaining the domestication of the grape has gradually evolved into cultural, political, and economic discourse.

When we embark on a journey back to the origins of civilization, we inevitably find ourselves in Mesopotamia. The fertility carried by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, born in the mountains of Anatolia, enabled our ancestors to lay the foundations of a civilizational journey that continues to this day.