New World Wines: The Complete Guide - Softcover

Arkell, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841880922 ISBN 13: 9781841880921

Publisher: Cassell Illustrated, 2000

Synopsis

Delectable, fresh tastes at amazingly great prices: the wines of North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa are challenging the dominance of established European classics and setting new standards for lovers of the grape everywhere. One of the world's most highly respected wine experts answers all your questions in the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, analyzing exactly why New World Wines are so special and so popular. Meet the influential winemakers whose products have won over the world market, and become an insider clued into the best vineyards in every area. A buyer's guide will aid you in collecting the finest the New World has to offer, from California's Bonny Doon winery to Chile's ErrÁzuriz to Australia's Henschke. With numerous boxed features and color photos that capture the grape-filled farmlands, the winemaking process, and glasses filled with reds, whites, and sparkling wines so tempting you'll want to rush right to the store!

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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: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841880922
• ISBN 13: 9781841880921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224