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Terroir and other myths of winegrowing / Mark A. Matthews.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520962002
  • 0520962001
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Terroir and other myths of winegrowing.DDC classification:
  • 634.8 23
LOC classification:
  • SB387.7 .M38 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Low yield and small berries determine wine quality -- Vine balance is the key to fine winegrapes -- Critical ripening period and the stressed vine -- The terroir explanation.
Summary: "Matthews brings a scientist's skepticism and scrutiny to widely held ideas and beliefs about viticulture--often promulgated by people who have not tried to grow grapes for a living--and subjects them to critical examination: Is terroir primarily a marketing ploy that obscures our understanding of which environments really produce the best wine? Can grapevines that yield a high berry crop generate wines of high quality? What does it mean to have vines that are balanced or grapes that are fully mature? Do biodynamic practices violate biological principles? These and other questions will be addressed in a book that could alternatively be titled (in homage to a PUP bestseller) On Wine Bullshit"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Low yield and small berries determine wine quality -- Vine balance is the key to fine winegrapes -- Critical ripening period and the stressed vine -- The terroir explanation.

"Matthews brings a scientist's skepticism and scrutiny to widely held ideas and beliefs about viticulture--often promulgated by people who have not tried to grow grapes for a living--and subjects them to critical examination: Is terroir primarily a marketing ploy that obscures our understanding of which environments really produce the best wine? Can grapevines that yield a high berry crop generate wines of high quality? What does it mean to have vines that are balanced or grapes that are fully mature? Do biodynamic practices violate biological principles? These and other questions will be addressed in a book that could alternatively be titled (in homage to a PUP bestseller) On Wine Bullshit"--Provided by publisher.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 02, 2016).

English.

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