- 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
Surviving Success in the Midi: Growers, Merchants, and the State
Surviving Success in the Midi: Growers, Merchants, and the State
- Chapter:
- (p.58) Chapter 3 Surviving Success in the Midi: Growers, Merchants, and the State
- Source:
- Creating Wine
- Author(s):
James Simpson
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter looks at the experience of the Midi, France's cheapest wine producer. After examining long-run changes in France's domestic wine supply, and in particular merchants' attempts to augment supply during the phylloxera epidemic by adulteration, it shows how the changes in political strength of small farmers and workers increased during the Third Republic, especially after the 1884 law permitting the formation of syndicates. Despite the presence of large vineyards in the Midi, the wine industry was relatively united in its attempt first to tackle phylloxera and replant, and then to demand state intervention to control fraud. Finally, the chapter considers how smaller growers started to establish cooperatives in response to another threat to their livelihood, namely, the increasing economies of scale and skills required for wine production and marketing.
Keywords: Midi, French wine, wine adulteration, small farmers, wine industry, phylloxera, fraud, regional cooperatives
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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