Creating wine
Subtitle: the emergence of a world industry, 1840-1914
By: James Simpson
Series: The Princeton economic history of the Western world; Princeton economic history of the Western world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780691136035
Subjects: Wine industry; Wine and wine making; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: European wine on the eve of the railways; title: Phylloxera and the development of scientific viti-viniculture; title: Surviving success in the Midi: growers, merchants, and the state; title: Selling to reluctant drinkers: the British market and the international wine trade; title: Bordeaux; title: Champagne; title: Port; title: From sherry to Spanish white; title: Big business and American wine: the California Wine Association; title: Australia: the tyranny of distance and domestic beer drink; title: Argentina: New World producers and Old World consumers.