Michael Veseth

Inspired by Jules Verne's classic adventure tale, Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg's home base, and follows Fogg's itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria,...

"Wine is an art, a craft, a science, and a delicious part of life enjoyed by millions of people. But it is a global industry, too. In Wine Wars II economist Mike Veseth shows how globalization, commodification, and the "revenge of the terroirists" help determine what's in your wine glass - and how wine's triple crisis threatens the soul of wine"--