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Author Goode, Jamie

Title Authentic wine : toward natural and sustainable winemaking / Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- The diversity of wine : how a natural approach can help preserve wine's interest -- Terroir -- Grafted vines -- Biodynamics and organics -- Sustainable winegrowing -- When winemakers intervene : the chemical and physical manipulation of wine -- The natural wine movement -- Yeasts, wild and cultured -- Ripeness and high alcohol -- Wine faults -- The carbon footprint of wine -- Marketing authentic wine -- Conclusions
Summary Naturalness is a hot topic in the wine world. But what exactly is a "natural wine"? For this pioneering book, best-selling wine writer Jamie Goode has teamed up with winemaker and Master of Wine Sam Harrop to explore the wide range of issues surrounding authenticity in wine. They begin by emphasizing that wine's diversity, one of its strengths, is currently under threat from increasingly homogenized commercial wines that lack a sense of place. Drawing on a global array of examples and anecdotes, Goode and Harrop examine complex concepts--terroir, biodynamics, and sustainability--in clear languag
Notes Includes index
English
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Subject Wine and wine making.
Organic wines.
Organic viticulture.
COOKING -- Beverages -- Wine & Spirits.
Organic viticulture
Organic wines
Wine and wine making
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Harrop, Sam
LC no. 2010052392
ISBN 9780520949690
0520949692
1283278227
9781283278225
9786613278227
661327822X