Oz Clarke’s Story of Wine
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Oz Clarke’s Story of Wine

8000 Years, 100 Bottles

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eBook - ePub

Oz Clarke’s Story of Wine

8000 Years, 100 Bottles

About this book

Uncork a whole new take on the fascinating story of wine, captivatingly told by everyone's favourite wine expert Oz Clarke.

This fully updated edition takes us through the riveting twists and turns of the history of winemaking all the way to the very latest trials and innovations of the present day…

Join Oz Clarke on a journey through the ages as he explores the places, the people and the bottles that have shaped the captivating history of wine.

Starting from the probable birth of a wine culture in ancient Georgia, Oz travels from 6000 BC through the fact and fiction of Persia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, and then along the winding trail right up to the latest innovations in winemaking today.

Packed with sparkling wit and charismatic storytelling, Oz shares more than a hundred fascinating tales and woven into these are probably a hundred more. From revered medieval monks to revolutionary discoveries, Oz paints a wonderfully vivid picture of the ever-evolving story of wine.

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Information

Publisher
Pavilion Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9780008621506
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Note to Readers
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 6000 BC Where Did It All Start?
  8. c. 2350 BC Wine in Legend and Myth
  9. 2000-146 BC Greece
  10. 1480-1300 BC Egypt
  11. 800-300 BC Phoenicia
  12. 300 BC-AD 200 Rome
  13. AD 77-79 Resin and All That
  14. AD 79 Pompeii
  15. AD 100 Rome Passing the Baton
  16. 1100s-1200s Monasteries – Clos de Vougeot
  17. 1154-1453 The Birth of Claret
  18. 1540 Steinwein
  19. 1571 Tokaji
  20. 1587 Sherry (Sack)
  21. 1632 The New ‘English Glass’ Bottle
  22. 1662 Christopher Merret and the Invention of Sparkling Wine
  23. 1663 Château Haut-Brion
  24. 1660s-1700s Madeira and the New World
  25. 1681 Corkscrews
  26. 1685 Constantia
  27. 1690s Dom Pérignon
  28. 1716 Chianti
  29. 1727 Rüdesheimer Apostelwein
  30. 1740s Airtight Corks
  31. 1740s The Modern Wine Bottle
  32. 1740s Decanters
  33. 1756 Delimitation of the Douro
  34. 1775 Schloss Johannisberg’s Spätlese Wine
  35. Early 1800s Bottle Shapes
  36. 1801 Chaptal’s Traité
  37. 1840s Doctors & Germans
  38. 1843 Barolo
  39. 1845 Hock
  40. mid-1800s Large-format Bottles
  41. 1855 Bordeaux Classification
  42. 1855-1870s The Concept of Château
  43. 1857 Agoston Haraszthy’s Buena Vista Winery
  44. 1860 Wine Labels
  45. 1860 Murrieta & Riscal
  46. 1860 Louis Pasteur
  47. 1863 Phylloxera
  48. 1889 Champagne Marketing
  49. 1914-1915 Champagne – The Blood Vintages
  50. 1915 Vega Sicilia
  51. 1920-1933 Prohibition
  52. 1924 Mouton Rothschild – Château Bottling
  53. 1931 Quinta do Noval Nacional
  54. 1935 Appellation Contrôlée
  55. 1935 Prestige Cuvées
  56. 1936 Beaulieu Cabernet Sauvignon
  57. 1942 Mateus
  58. 1945 Nazi Wine
  59. 1949 Émile Peynaud
  60. 1951 Grange Hermitage
  61. 1952 Barca Velha
  62. 1950s-1960s The Bordeaux Effect
  63. 1960 J. Bollinger v Costa Brava Wine Company
  64. 1961 Konstantin Frank
  65. 1963 A Future without Glass
  66. 1963 Torres Viña Sol
  67. 1964 Gallo Hearty Burgundy
  68. 1965 Bag-in-Box
  69. 1966 Michael Broadbent at Christie’s
  70. 1966 Robert Mondavi & the Rebirth of Napa
  71. 1967 Washington State
  72. 1968 Italy Breaks the Mould
  73. 1960s-1970s The Burgundy Effect
  74. 1970s Retsina
  75. 1970s Wine Brands
  76. 1971 German Wine Classifications
  77. 1974 Beaujolais Nouveau
  78. 1975 Eyrie Vineyards’ Pinot Noir
  79. 1975 White Zinfandel
  80. 1976 Barboursville Cabernet Sauvignon
  81. 1976 Judgment of Paris
  82. 1978 Parker Points
  83. 1979 Opus One
  84. 1980s Varietal Labelling
  85. 1982 The 1982 Vintage in Bordeaux
  86. 1983 Montana Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
  87. 1985 Most Expensive Bottle
  88. 1987 Central Otago – Furthest South
  89. 1987 Flying Winemakers
  90. 1980s-1990s International Consultants
  91. 1990s Cabernet Conquers the World
  92. 1990 Royal Tokaji
  93. 1991 Rise of the Garagistes
  94. 1991 Canadian Icewine
  95. 1993 Synthetic Corks
  96. 1994 Catena Malbec
  97. 1998 Nyetimber
  98. 2000s Most Northerly Vineyards
  99. 2000 Screw Caps
  100. 2001 Zinfandel
  101. 2004 The Berlin Tasting
  102. 2006 Highest Vineyard
  103. 2010 Extreme Atacama
  104. 2011 China
  105. 2014 Fraud – Rudy Kurniawan
  106. 2010s Natural Wines
  107. 2010 The Colour is Orange
  108. 2018 How Far Can the UK Go?
  109. 2020 ‘Can du Vin’ Anybody?
  110. 2022 Fire and Smoke
  111. 2022 Global Warming – How Warm is Warm?
  112. List of Searchable Terms
  113. Acknowledgements
  114. About the Author
  115. About the Publisher

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