The Desire for Wine: Conquering the World

If viticulture is experiencing a (relative) crisis in France, the same cannot be said for the rest of the world: America (North and South), Africa (southern), Australia, and many other regions (often limited only by Islam) are developing vineyards that are sometimes remarkable. They do not have the same soils as us and not always the same grape varieties. However, they have learned the most precious lessons from Europe: the cultivation and maintenance methods of the vine, winemaking. Therefore, in this era of globalization, a very fresh assessment of vine and wine worldwide can be made today. With taste, expertise, precision, focusing on bottling as well as preservation, transportation, and trade, J.-R. Pitte truly provides us with the first complete encyclopedia on the subject - The Bible on wine, vineyards, winemakers, viticulture across all latitudes, by the French "pope" of cultural geography.