Ekstaze i mamurluci

This book was written in a hurry at the beginning of 1989. It therefore appeared at the worst possible moment, at the very twilight of the collapse (or collapse) of the then existing socialist system, but that did not prevent its circulation from being exhausted as a sensation. The interested readership simply thirsted for such a collection of feuilletonistic-essayistic and comparative-cultural exaltations of "wine pleasure". Because until then, in our country there had only been professional publications on viticulture and winemaking, of course, very important, necessary and appreciated according to their purposes and purposes, but the multitude of wine drinkers needed some kind of solid "justification" for their passion. The mass media, especially the printed media, had not yet gained the freedom in which they could praise such special (finer) hedonistic pleasures, because while various political walls in the world and around us had already begun to fall, the voices of those who demanded the right to legalize "fine palates" and to advocate anti-moralistic pleasures had not yet been freed from the remnants. Well, this thirst was quenched by this book, the first of its kind in Croatian textuality (they also called it non-fiction!), because with full authorial conviction (education and experience) it embarked on the literaryization of everyday mass and occasionally more elite oenophilia (and the gastronomy that goes with it!).