Transylvanian Saxon writings on wine and viniculture provide unusually informative insights as to the small East European community's responses to the impacts of modernization: loss of corporate ...privileges, minority status in first Habsburg Hungary and after the First World War, Romania, and increasing integration into a global economy. Transylvanian Saxons imbued wine with symbolic functions beyond its dietary or economic importance; viniculture and wine embodied Saxon aspirations and fears for the future. While ethnographers invoked the traditions embodied in wine to shore up Saxon status within Transylvania, economists extolled viniculture as an industry capable of modernization and a secure financial future for the community. Conversely, Saxon abstinence campaigners identified wine as the root of the Saxons' decline, and hoped to build a better future through its abolition. Through its symbolic roles, wine and viniculture reveal the potentials and limitations the Transylvanian Saxon community faced in confronting modernization.
From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California ...viticulture one of America's most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the massive industrial wineries of the Central Valley. But how did a small group of nineteenth-century immigrants plant the roots that flourished into a world-class industry? Was there something particularly Italianin their success?In this fresh, fascinating account of the ethnic origins of California wine, Simone Cinotto rewrites a century-old triumphalist story. He demonstrates that these Italian visionaries were not skilled winemakers transplanting an immemorial agricultural tradition, even if California did resemble the rolling Italian countryside of their native Piedmont. Instead, Cinotto argues that it was the wine-makers' access to social capital, or the ethnic and familial ties that bound them to their rich wine-growing heritage, and not financial leverage or direct enological experience, that enabled them to develop such a successful and influential wine business. Focusing on some of the most important names in wine history - particularly Pietro Carlo Rossi, Secondo Guasti, and the Gallos - he chronicles a story driven by ambition and creativity but realized in a complicated tangle of immigrant entrepreneurship, class struggle, racial inequality, and a new world of consumer culture.Skillfully blending regional, social, and immigration history, Soft Soil, Black Grapes takes us on an original journey into the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine.
The natural beauty, wine and cuisine, and cultural offerings of the autonomous regions of Rioja and Castilla y León have been appreciated by religious pilgrims, oenophiles, and Spanish visitors for ...centuries. The growth of the economic and cultural importance of the Spanish wine industry has resulted in substantial investment in the area, as both Rioja and Ribera del Duero (situated in Castilla y León) have evolved into major wine producers on the world market. Perhaps the most visually engaging type of investment is seen through the integration of a number of iconic structures designed by the world’s leading architects. The juxtaposition of the strong lines of the new structures with the pastoral environment and surrounding medieval towns enhances the visual impact of the area. In recent decades, architects including Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry, Richard Rogers, Philippe Mazière, Norman Foster, Iñaki Aspiazu, and Jesús Manzanares have contributed to redesigning the visual landscape of wine-producing zones. This paper will address aspects of the different structures, the manner in which they incorporate or contrast with the environment, and the reaction that their presence has provoked among residents and visitors alike.
Although native of temperate climates, grapevines are grown in Colombia in the department of Boyaca, between 2,200 and 2,560 m a.s.l. Under these specific conditions, both the physicochemical ...behavior of the fruit and its optimum harvest time as measured in growing degree days (GDD) had remained unknown so far. On these grounds, in the municipality of Nobsa (Boyaca, Colombia), grapevines of the variety Pinot Noir were physico-chemically characterized during their growth and development. Since day 21 after anthesis (DAA ) until overripening, the physicochemical characteristics of 20 berries from each of three clusters we collected every week were carefully assessed. A total of 826.2 GDD accumulated during fruit growth and development, thus completing 126 DAA . The accumulation of both fresh and dry mass followed double sigmoid curves. During early growth there was a decrease in pH, total soluble solids (TSS ) and technological maturity index (TMI =TSS / TTA ), coupled to an increase in total titratable acidity (TTA ). After this period and until harvest, pH, TSS and TMI increased while TTA declined. Based on fresh mass, SST and TMI it was possible to set optimum harvest time at 800.6 GDD.
Grapevine in a Changing Environment Hern ni Ger s, Ger s; Maria Manuela Chaves, Chaves; Hipolito Medrano Gil, Gil ...
2015, 2015-10-09
eBook, Book
Grapes ( Vitis spp. ) are economically the most important fruit species in the world. Over the last decades many scientific advances have led to understand more deeply key physiological, biochemical, ...and molecular aspects of grape berry maturation. However, our knowledge on how grapevines respond to environmental stimuli and deal with biotic and abiotic stresses is still fragmented. Thus, this area of research is wide open for new scientific and technological advancements. Particularly, in the context of climate change, viticulture will have to adapt to higher temperatures, light intensity and atmospheric CO2 concentration, while water availability is expected to decrease in many viticultural regions, which poses new challenges to scientists and producers. With Grapevine in a Changing Environment, readers will benefit from a comprehensive and updated coverage on the intricate grapevine defense mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stress and on the new generation techniques that may be ultimately used to implement appropriate strategies aimed at the production and selection of more adapted genotypes. The book also provides valuable references in this research area and original data from several laboratories worldwide. Written by 63 international experts on grapevine ecophysiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, the book is a reference for a wide audience with different backgrounds, from plant physiologists, biochemists and graduate and post-graduate students, to viticulturists and enologists.
As wine economist Mike Veseth peels away layer after layer of the money-taste-wine relationship he discovers the wine buyer's biggest mistake and learns how to avoid it, enlists in the "restaurant ...wars" and toasts anything but Champagne. His engaging and enlightening book will surprise, inform, inspire, and delight wine lovers everywhere.
ENOTOURISM: A NICHE TENDENCY WITHIN THE TOURISM MARKET Sorin BIBICIOIU; Romeo Cătălin CREŢU
Scientific papers series "management, economic engineering in agriculture and rural development",
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This paper is aimed at establishing the required actions to be taken so as to improve perception on Romanian wine and vine tourism. In the Romanian wine and vine field, the main changes over the last ...ten years have been the modernization of wineries by maintaining the valuable local grape varieties and replanting soil with resistant and productive varieties, introducing new technologies in wine production processes and local producers’ relocation on the market. Besides all these, technical and material facilities were developed by rehabilitating, modernizing and opening of numerous wine cellars, constructing modern accommodation units within or close to vine areas and implementing marketing programmes aimed at promoting vine areas. The tendencies of hospitality industry corroborated with the change of interest and the perceptions of the tourism products consumers make us reach the following conclusion: enotourism has to be adapted to the innovative market spirit, an efficacious brand strategy has to be defined for the final goal of attracting as many consumers as possible. Eenotourism is that form of tourism which offers great local development opportunities to vineyards areas. To conclude, the study will describe the market features and tendencies, based on a large range of resources and it will present ideas connected to the tourism management and economic policies that may positively or negatively influence this field.
The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as ...author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America.Empire of Vinestraces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California-a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture.Empire of Vinesdetails the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult ofterroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (also known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.
The "glorious house" of the senatorial family of the Flavii Apiones is the best documented economic entity of the Roman Empire during the fifth through seventh centuries, that critical period of ...transition between the classical world and the Middle Ages. For decades, the rich but fragmentary manuscript evidence that this large agricultural estate left behind, preserved for 1,400 years by the desiccating sands of Egypt, has been central to arguments concerning the agrarian and fiscal history of Late Antiquity, including the rise of feudalism.
Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egyptis the most authoritative synthesis concerning the economy of the Apion estate to appear to date. T. M. Hickey examines the records of the family's wine production in the sixth century in order to shed light on ancient economic practices and economic theory, as well as on the wine industry and on estate management. Based on careful study of the original manuscripts, including unpublished documents from the estate archive, he presents controversial conclusions, much at odds with the "top down" models currently dominating the scholarship.
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