Creating wine : the emergence of a world industry, 1840-1914 / James Simpson.

Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Simpson, James, 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Table of Contents:
  • European wine on the eve of the railways
  • Phylloxera and the development of scientific viti-viniculture
  • Surviving success in the Midi: growers, merchants, and the state
  • Selling to reluctant drinkers: the British market and the international wine trade
  • Bordeaux
  • Champagne
  • Port
  • From sherry to Spanish white
  • Big business and American wine: the California Wine Association
  • Australia: the tyranny of distance and domestic beer drink
  • Argentina: New World producers and Old World consumers.