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The Red and the White: The History of Wine in France and Italy in the Nineteenth Century

The Red and the White: The History of Wine in France and Italy in the Nineteenth Century

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Business GeneralAnthropology

ISBN10: 1438467265
ISBN13: 9781438467269
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 30 1978
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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