Creating wine [electronic resource] : the emergence of a world industry, 1840-1914 / James Simpson.
2011
HD9385.A2 S56 2011eb
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Title
Creating wine [electronic resource] : the emergence of a world industry, 1840-1914 / James Simpson.
Author
Simpson, James, 1953-
ISBN
9781400838882 (electronic bk.)
9780691136035
9780691136035
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxvii, 318 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number
HD9385.A2 S56 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.8/8763209034
Summary
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 abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia, the industry is dominated by a handful of very large producers. This is the first book to trace the economic and historical forces that gave rise to very distinctive regional approaches to creating wine. James Simpson shows how the wine industry was transformed in the decades leading up to the First World War. Population growth, rising wages, and the railways all contributed to soaring European consumption even as many vineyards were decimated by the vine disease phylloxera. At the same time, new technologies led to a major shift in production away from Europe's traditional winemaking regions. Small family producers in Europe developed institutions such as regional appellations and cooperatives to protect their commercial interests as large integrated companies built new markets in America and elsewhere. Simpson examines how Old and New World producers employed diverging strategies to adapt to the changing global wine industry. Creating Wine includes chapters on Europe's cheap commodity wine industry; the markets for sherry, port, claret, and champagne; and the new wine industries in California, Australia, and Argentina.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 drinkers
Argentina : New World producers and Old World consumers.
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 drinkers
Argentina : New World producers and Old World consumers.