The Complete Guide to New World Wines - Hardcover

Arkell, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0304351601 ISBN 13: 9780304351602

Publisher: Cassell Illustrated, 1999

Synopsis

New world wines (defined as the wines of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA, Canada, Chile and Argentina) have taken the wine industry by storm. In this manual, wine expert Julie Arkell explains what makes the new world wines different, how their production and viticulture affects the flavours and quality achieved and how each country has distinctive characteristics that make its wines different from those of the old world. The buyer's guide offers advice on drinkers and keepers in all price ranges. Julie Arkell discusses the wines country by country, adding comprehensive information about leading and innovative vineyards, the characteristics to look out for and the individual wines to buy. Illustrated with colour photography as well as with maps of the wine-growing areas, this should be a useful guide to wines of the new world.

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Review

Anyone who has been at all excited by the tastes of wines from Australia, New Zealand, Chile, South Africa or any of the other new wine-producing regions, need look no further than New World Wines. A committed and dedicated enthusiast, Julie Arkell is an expert guide to this astonishingly varied and exciting subject. It's hard now to remember a time before California, Chile, New Zealand, Australia and the other "new" wine regions, but it really isn't many years since the only acceptable wines available were French or German, with a number of disturbingly unpleasant regional table wines, Spanish perhaps or Italian, tagging along behind. The rise of the New World has been astonishingly rapid, driven by entrepreneurial energy and the application, unhindered by tradition, of all that technological innovation can offer. (Global Positioning by Satellite, for example, is now employed to determine to within a matter of yards the location of unmanned harvesters, allowing the grower to chart the quality of grapes from each tiny patch of land.)

Systematically organised by country, New World Wines outlines the geography, principal grape varieties (an extraordinary subject in itself) and regions of each, compress a lifetime's experience and erudition into compact but remarkably readable form. An introduction on the characteristics of the New World wines is followed by profiles of the most prominent wine-makers, fitting faces and often vivid personalities to some of the best known wine names. --Robin Davidson

Edition details

• Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304351601
• ISBN 13: 9780304351602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224