- Title Pages
- To María Jesús
- Epigraph
- 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 -
Chapter 2 Phylloxera and the Development of Scientific Viti-Viniculture -
Chapter 3 Surviving Success in the Midi: Growers, Merchants, and the State -
Part II The Causes of Export Failure -
Chapter 4 Selling to Reluctant Drinkers: The British Market and the International Wine Trade -
Part III Institutional Innovation: Regional Appellations -
Chapter 5 Bordeaux -
Chapter 6 Champagne -
Chapter 7 Port -
Chapter 8 From Sherry to Spanish White -
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 -
Chapter 10 Australia: The Tyranny of Distance and Domestic Beer Drinkers -
Chapter 11 Argentina: New World Producers and Old World Consumers - Conclusion
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Appendix 1 Vineyards and Wineries -
Appendix 2 Wine Prices - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Phylloxera and the Development of Scientific Viti-Viniculture
Phylloxera and the Development of Scientific Viti-Viniculture
- Chapter:
- (p.30) Chapter 2 Phylloxera and the Development of Scientific Viti-Viniculture
- Source:
- Creating Wine
- Author(s):
James Simpson
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter examines the growth in wine consumption in the second half of the nineteenth century and shows the impact of phylloxera on the French market, and how the stimulus of higher international prices led to a wine boom in Spain. At the time, Europe's growers, winemakers, and merchants had to adapt to some important changes. On the demand side, the decline in transport costs produced by the railways, rapid urbanization, and rising incomes led to per capita wine consumption in France reaching more than 160 liters in the 1900s, and there were significant increases in other countries. The growth in consumption was all the more impressive given that the vine disease phylloxera vastatrix destroyed large areas of Europe's vineyards. In addition, the chapter discusses the development of scientific viticulture and wine making, and the appearance of large-scale wineries in the Midi and Algeria.
Keywords: wine consumption, phylloxera, phylloxera vastatrix, vineyards, scientific viticulture, Spain, France, wine boom, wine making, wine market
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- Title Pages
- To María Jesús
- Epigraph
- 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 -
Chapter 2 Phylloxera and the Development of Scientific Viti-Viniculture -
Chapter 3 Surviving Success in the Midi: Growers, Merchants, and the State -
Part II The Causes of Export Failure -
Chapter 4 Selling to Reluctant Drinkers: The British Market and the International Wine Trade -
Part III Institutional Innovation: Regional Appellations -
Chapter 5 Bordeaux -
Chapter 6 Champagne -
Chapter 7 Port -
Chapter 8 From Sherry to Spanish White -
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 -
Chapter 10 Australia: The Tyranny of Distance and Domestic Beer Drinkers -
Chapter 11 Argentina: New World Producers and Old World Consumers - Conclusion
-
Appendix 1 Vineyards and Wineries -
Appendix 2 Wine Prices - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index