Creating Wine : The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

James Simpson

Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia, the industry is dominated by a handful of very large producers. This is the first book to trace the economic and historical forces that gave rise to very distinctive regional approaches to creating wine. James Simpson shows how the wine

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Simpson, James Patrick
Publisher:	Princeton : Princeton University Press
Subject:	Weinbau \| Wine industry \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Welt \| World \| Weinwirtschaft \| Geschichte 1840-1914
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [degruyter.com] ; Description [degruyter.com] ; Description [degruyter.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (xxxvii, 318 p)
Series:	The Princeton Economic History of the Western World The Princeton economic history of the Western world
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; Weights, Measures, and Currencies; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part I: Technological and Organizational Change in Europe, 1840-1914; Chapter 1 European Wine on the Eve of the Railways; What Is Wine?; Family Producers; The Production of Grapes prior to Phylloxera; Traditional Wine-Making Technologies; Markets, Institutions, and Wine Consumption; The Development of Fine Export Wines; Chapter 2 Phylloxera and the Development of Scientific Viti-Viniculture The Growth in Wine Consumption in Producer CountriesPhylloxera and the Destruction of Europe's Vines; Phylloxera and the International Response in Spain and Italy; Wine Making, Economies of Scale and the Spread of Viticulture to Hot Climates; La Viticulture Industrielle and Vertical Integration: Wine Production in the Midi; Chapter 3 Surviving Success in the Midi: Growers, Merchants, and the State; Phylloxera and Wine Adulteration; Politics, Phylloxera, and the Vineyard during France's Third Republic; The Midi: From Shortage to Overproduction From Informal to Formal Cooperation: La Cave Coopérative VinicolePart II: The Causes of Export Failure; Chapter 4 Selling to Reluctant Drinkers: The British Market and the International Wine Trade; The Political Economy of the Wine Trade in Britain prior to 1860; Gladstone and the Rise and Decline in Consumption in the Late Nineteenth Century; The Retail Market and Product Adulteration; Who Controls the Chain? Experiments at ""Buyer-Led"" Commodity Chains; Part III: Institutional Innovation: Regional Appellations; Chapter 5 Bordeaux; Claret, Trade, and the Organization of Production The 1855 Classification and the Branding of ClaretSupply Volatility, Vine Disease, and the Decline in Reputation of Fine Claret; Response to Overproduction: A Regional Appellation; Chapter 6 Champagne; The Myth of Dom Pérignon and the Development of Champagne; Economies of Scale, Brands, and Marketing; The Response to Phylloxera; Organization of a Regional Appellation; Chapter 7 Port; Port and the British Market; Product Development and the Demands of a Mass Market; Rent Seeking, Fraud, and Regional Appellations; Chapter 8 From Sherry to Spanish White The Organization of Wine Production in JerezSherry and the British Market; Product Innovation and Cost Control; Wine Quality and the Demand for a Regional Appellation; Part IV: The Great Divergence: The Growth of Industrial Wine Production in the New World; Chapter 9 Big Business and American Wine: The California Wine Association; Creating Vineyards and Wineries in a Labor-Scarce Economy; Production Instability and the Creation of the California Wine Association; The California Wine Association and the Market for California's Wines Chapter 10 Australia: The Tyranny of Distance and Domestic Beer Drinkers In English
ISBN:	978-1-4008-3888-2 ; 978-0-691-13603-5 ; 978-0-691-13603-5
Other identifiers:	10.1515/9781400838882 [DOI] 10.1515/9781400838882?locatt=mode:legacy [DOI]
Classification:	Pflanzenproduktion: Allgemeines
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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