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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In these fascinating interviews, winemakers from the United States and abroad clarify the complex process of converting grapes into wine, with more than forty vintners candidly discussing how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of their individual wines. Each winemaker details their personal approach to the various steps required to convert grapes into wine. Natalie Berkowitz speaks to winemakers from different backgrounds...
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine, and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgundy. Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion that he couldn't stifle. Ray neglected his work, spending hours poring over ancient French winemaking texts, learning the techniques and the language, and daydreaming about vineyards. After Ray experienced his...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Gorup
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
" We wine writers tend to be obsessive souls. How else can a person stay fascinated throughout a career with just one drink? Compare us to food writers: Over their lives, they'll encounter thousands of ingredients and ways of combining and cooking them. Wine, by contrast, is just fermented grapes. But it engages our primary senses-smell, taste, feel-in a way that is both hedonistic and cerebral. That's why I've spent the past several years traipsing...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The world of wine encompasses endless variety. Consumers want to understand what makes one bottle of wine different from another; vintners need to know how to communicate what makes their product distinctive. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Italy and France as well as interviews with critics and analysis of market data, Giacomo Negro, Michael T. Hannan, and Susan Olzak provide an unprecedented sociological account of the dynamics of wine markets....
Author
Publisher
Fox Chapel Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Sparkling wines, or champagnes, have a charm and attraction all their own: they are synonymous with celebration and happiness and are the natural choice for celebrations and any kind of festivity. The ability to make sparkling wine is one of the most desirable accomplishments for a vintner. And for any home winemaker to produce his or her own sparkling wine is one-upmanship to the Nth degree! Yet it is perfectly possible to make champagne-style wine...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This work describes the eight thousand year history of wine, chronicling the changes that have taken place in preparation and taste as the ancient world gave way to the scientific, industrial, social, and ideological revolutions of modern times. It tells the story of how wine, as enjoyed by millions of people today, came into existence. Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those...
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