The wine Connoisseur is one who knows good wine from bad and who appreciates the distinctive merits of different wines. ... bowed head over your glass, try to remember the occasion when you last met the same charming “bouquet” OF FRANCE 31.
In the French wine market, foreign competition was particularly fierce. Foreign wines found a niche in France during the Second Empire and the early years of the Third Republic when consumer demand far outpaced domestic supply.
Author: Elizabeth Heath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107070585
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 327
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Reveals how empire and global economic crisis redefined republican citizenship and laid the foundations of a racial state in France.
And now let us begin to taste some of the wines of France, a rich variety that ranges from light to fullbodied, from inexpensive to very. In these introductory chapters, we'll get acquainted with some of them. Then, we'll explore how to ...
Author: William S. Shepard
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595288588
Category: Cooking
Page: 167
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Shepard's Guide to Mastering French Wines makes you an authority on the finest French wines. Explore the vineyards region by region. Then throw away those misleading point scorecards as you develop your own wine taste. What They Are Saying About Shepard's Robbie Cutler Diplomatic Mystery Series "Bill Shepard has adroitly used his encyclopedic knowledge of Bordeaux and the region to weave a fascinating story. If you like Bordeaux wine read Vintage Murder." -Evan Galbraith, United States Ambassador to France 1981-1985. "Murder On The Danube is very well written, very informative and very entertaining. Reminds me of Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Demetrios." -John Goodspeed, Star/Democrat.
The three most prestigious wine regions of France—Bordeaux, Burgundy (whose wine authorities would prefer us to refer to it as “Bourgogne”), and Champagne—may be the standard-bearers of French wine, but they represent only a sixth of ...
Author: Rod Phillips
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520355439
Category: History
Page: 348
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"A fascinating book that belongs on every wine lover’s bookshelf."—The Wine Economist "It’s a book to read for its unstoppable torrent of fascinating and often surprising details."—Andrew Jefford, Decanter For centuries, wine has been associated with France more than with any other country. France remains one of the world’s leading wine producers by volume and enjoys unrivaled cultural recognition for its wine. If any wine regions are global household names, they are French regions such as Champagne, Bordeaux, and Burgundy. Within the wine world, products from French regions are still benchmarks for many wines. French Wine is the first synthetic history of wine in France: from Etruscan, Greek, and Roman imports and the adoption of wine by beer-drinking Gauls to its present status within the global marketplace. Rod Phillips places the history of grape growing and winemaking in each of the country’s major regions within broad historical and cultural contexts. Examining a range of influences on the wine industry, wine trade, and wine itself, the book explores religion, economics, politics, revolution, and war, as well as climate and vine diseases. French Wine is the essential reference on French wine for collectors, consumers, sommeliers, and industry professionals.
Author: United States International Trade CommissionPublish On: 1985
21 In France and Italy , these wines may be referred to as noncontrolled wines . 3 / The German wines included are classified as " Tafelwein " ( table wine ) and " Qualitatswein " ( quality wine ) . 41 Nonpremium table wine is the ...
Author: United States International Trade Commission
The author uses a wide range of sources, including archives and contemporary accounts. The volume contains extensive figures, tables, graphs, and maps.
Author: Leo A. Loubère
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0873953703
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 428
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The delight of Bacchus, wine has ever been man's solace and joy. Growing out of the poorest soil, the wild grape was tamed and blended over millennia to produce a royal beverage. But the nineteenth century brought a near revolution in the production of wine, and democracy in its consumption; technology made wine an industry, while improved living standards put it on the people's dinner table. The vintners of France and Italy frantically bought land and planted grapes in their attempt to profit from the golden age of wine. But the very technology which made possible swift transportation, with all its benefits to winemen, brought utter devastation from America--the phylloxera aphids--and only when France and Italy had replanted their entire vineyards on American stock did they again supply the thirsty cities and discriminating elite. In an exhaustive examination Professor Loubère follows the wine production process from practices recommended long ago by the Greeks and Romans through the technical changes that occurred in the nineteenth century. He shows how technology interacted with economic, social, and political phenomena to produce a new viticultural world, but one distinct in different regions. Winemen espoused a wide range of politics and economics depending on where they lived, the grapes they grew, and the markets they sought. While a place remained for carefully hand-raised wine, the industry had, by the end of the century, turned to mass production, though it was capable of great quality control and consistency from year to year. The author uses a wide range of sources, including archives and contemporary accounts. The volume contains extensive figures, tables, graphs, and maps.