The book offers a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of California wine, covering its history, geography, and cultural significance. It emphasizes the role of Indigenous Peoples and farm labour in the industry's development and includes profiles of prominent producers and regions. The book is divided into three sections, providing a comprehensive overview of California wine.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 468 pages
Publication date: 02 April 2025
Publisher: ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED

California Wine: A Journey Through Place

California Wine: A Journey Through Place is a book that offers a meditation on place through its people, purpose, and possibility. It provides a historical context, political awareness, nuance, and care, and offers a portrait of California wine that acknowledges all the hands that shaped it. The book is essential for anyone just beginning their journey in wine, as it provides a concise, complete, and smartly delivered book for serious readers and students of wine. It focuses on the world's fourth-largest producer of wine, California, and takes readers on a journey through the golden states' wines, paying due attention to famous regions such as Sonoma and Napa as well as introducing readers to exciting up-and-coming regions to explore. The book is divided into three major sections: the first presents the key ideas that help make sense of California wine as a whole, including the history of California wine in brief, how the topography delivers California's overarching climatic and soil conditions, and the basics of vineyard and winery factors relevant to the state such as the role of the AVA. The second section takes each major region in turn and looks into its history, growing conditions, and varieties, as well as disc.

California Wine: A Journey Through Place

California Wine: A Journey Through Place is a book that offers a meditation on place through its people, purpose, and possibility. It provides a historical context, political awareness, nuance, and care, and offers a portrait of California wine that acknowledges all the hands that shaped it. The book is essential for anyone just beginning their journey in wine, as it provides a concise, complete, and smartly delivered book for serious readers and students of wine. It focuses on the world's fourth-largest producer of wine, California, and takes readers on a journey through the golden states' wines, paying due attention to famous regions such as Sonoma and Napa as well as introducing readers to exciting up-and-coming regions to explore. The book is divided into three major sections: the first presents the key ideas that help make sense of California wine as a whole, including the history of California wine in brief, how the topography delivers California's overarching climatic and soil conditions, and the basics of vineyard and winery factors relevant to the state such as the role of the AVA. The second section takes each major region in turn and looks into its history, growing conditions, and varieties, as well as disc.

Weight: 722g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913141875