The Wine Revolution in France
eBook - PDF

The Wine Revolution in France

The Twentieth Century

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Wine Revolution in France

The Twentieth Century

About this book

During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years. Here Leo Loubre examines how the modernization of Western society has brought about new conditions in well-established markets, making the introduction of novel techniques and processes a matter of survival for winegrowers.

Not only does Loubre explain how altered environmental conditions have enabled pioneering enologists to create styles of wine more suited to contemporary tastes and living arrangements, but he also discusses the social impact of the wine revolution on the employees in the industry. The third generation of this new viticultural regime has encountered working and living conditions drastically different from those of its predecessors, while witnessing the near disappearance of the working class and the decline of small and medium growers of ordinary wines.

Originally published in 1990.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 General Trends and Conditions Since 1914
  9. 2 The Viticultural Revolution
  10. 3 Viniculture: The Marriage of Pragmatism and Theory
  11. 4 The Attack on Fraud: Classification and Appellation
  12. 5 Cooperatives Among Individualists
  13. 6 The Economics of Wine
  14. 7 The Commerce of Wine
  15. 8 Conditions of Life: Propertied Growers
  16. 9 Conditions of Life: Laborers
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. Index