Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking - Softcover

Goode

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520275756 ISBN 13: 9780520275751

Publisher: University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

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 teams 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 language. They also discuss topics including cultured and wild yeasts, wine “faults,” the carbon footprint of the wine industry, “natural” as a marketing concept, and more. Authentic Wine illuminates a subject of great interest to wine producers, consumers, and anyone wondering where the wine industry is headed.

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Review:

"'Authentic Wine' performs the invaluable service of raising crucial questions and explaining complicated issues coherently."--Eric Asimov"New York Times" (12/13/2011)

"An ocean's worth of savvy detail about both the more (organic farming, the endless shades of sustainability) and less (reverse osmosis, acidification) happy nuances of making wine."--San Francisco Chronicle (08/14/2011)

"A compelling manifesto for natural wine . . . the understandable, everyday terms used make this a genuine guide to wine science for the citizen."-- (11/30/2011)

"It's been a good year for wine books. The most compelling new book is undoubtedly Authentic Wine by Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop."-- (12/06/2011)

"Ambitiously comprehensive. . . . Illuminating."-- (04/01/2012)

"A very good book. . . . One of the more balanced and detailed accounts dealing with the issue of sustainable winemaking."- Robert M. Parker, Jr.-- (11/22/2011)

"A very well written and useful book with a long shelf life. Once read, it is one to dip in and out of regularly."-- (12/01/2011)

About the Author:

Jamie Goode, a former scientific editor, is wine writer for the Sunday Express and a contributor to magazines including The World of Fine Wine and Wines & Vines. His website, www.wineanorak.com, is one of the world's most visited wine sites. His first book, The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass (UC Press) won the Glenfiddich Drink Book of the Year Award. Sam Harrop is a Master of Wine, qualified winemaker, and independent winemaking consultant. He co-founded Domaine Matassa and Litmus Wines, and is a co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0520275756
• ISBN 13: 9780520275751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272