| Description |
vii, 355 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Part I. Reinventing the Vine for Quality Wine Production: 1. Death and Resurrection in the Phylloxeric Vineyard -- 2. Scientific Programs for the Spread of the Grafted Vine -- 3. Direct Production Hybrids: Quality Wines? -- 4. The Fall of the Hybrid Empire and the Victory of Vitis vinifera -- Part II. Laying the Foundations of Oenology: 5. Jean-Antoine Chaptal -- 6. Louis Pasteur -- Part III. Oenology in Champagne, Burgundy, and Languedoc: 7. Champagne: the Science of Bubbles -- 8. Burgundy: The Limits of Empirical Science -- 9. Languedoc-Roussillon: innovations in tradition -- Part IV. Oenology in Bordeaux: 10. The pastorian oenology of Ulysse Gayon -- 11. The Ionic Gospel of the New Oenology -- 12. The Production of Oenologists -- Conclusion: Mopping-up Operations or Contemporary Oenology as Normal Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Science, Vine, and Wine in Modern France examines the role of science in the civilization of wine in modern France. Viticulture, the science of the vine itself, and oenology, the science winemaking are its subjects. Together, they can boast of at least two major triumphs: the creation of the post-phylloxera vines that repopulated late-nineteenth-century vineyards devastated by the disease; and an understanding of the complex structure of wine that eventually resulted in the development of the widespread wine models of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-351) and index |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Wine and wine making -- France -- History.
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Viticulture -- France -- History.
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| LC no. |
96001596 |
| ISBN |
0521497450 hardback |
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