Postmodern Winemaking (eBook)

Rethinking the Modern Science of an Ancient Craft

Clark Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
368 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95854-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In Postmodern Winemaking, Clark Smith shares the extensive knowledge he has accumulated in engaging, humorous, and erudite essays that convey a new vision of the winemaker's craft--one that credits the crucial roles played by both science and art in the winemaking process. Smith, a leading innovator in red wine production techniques, explains how traditional enological education has led many winemakers astray--enabling them to create competent, consistent wines while putting exceptional wines of structure and mystery beyond their grasp. Great wines, he claims, demand a personal and creative engagement with many elements of the process. His lively exploration of the facets of postmodern winemaking, together with profiles of some of its practitioners, is both entertaining and enlightening.

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. PRINCIPLES

1 The Solution Problem
2 Creating the Conditions for Graceful Aging
3 Building Structure: The Basic Tool Kit
4 The Seven Functions of Oak
5 Vineyard Enology: The Power of Showing Up
6 The Vicinal Diphenol Cascade: Red Wine’s
Defi ning Reaction
7 Redox Redux: Measuring Wine’s Oxygen
Uptake Capacity
8 Speculations on Minerality
9 Winemaking at High pH
10 Integrated Brettanomyces Management
11 Harmony and Astringency: Nice and Rough

PART TWO. PRACTICES

12 Winemaking’s Lunatic Heroes
13 Gideon Beinstock’s Mountain Magic:
Handling Extreme Terroir
14 Randall Grahm: California Dreamer in Search of
the Miraculous
15 Bob Wample: Thinking Like a Grape

PART THREE. TECHNOLOGY

16 Pressing Matters: A Postmodern Tale
17 Some Like It Hot
18 The New Filtrations: Winemaking’s Power Tools
19 Flash Détente: Winemaking Game Changer

PART FOUR. PHILOSOPHY

20 Spoofulated or Artisanal?
21 Science and Biodynamics: The Limits of Rationalism
22 Natural Wine Nonsense
23 Yeast Inoculation: Threat or Menace?
24 New World Identity and Judging Reform
25 Liquid Music: Resonance in Wine

Appendix 1. Winemaking Basics
Appendix 2. Navigating the Postmodern Calendar
Notes
Glossary of Postmodern Terminology
Index
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Schlagworte: acidity of wine • aging of wine • Alcohol • ART • craft of winemaking • Creativity • Drinking • food science • great wines • humorous • Innovator • insightful • minerality of wine • new techniques • old techniques • Practical • professional winemaker • red wine • red win production techniques • Science • sense of origin • structure of wine • tannins in wine • Vineyard • white wine • wine • wine as art • Wine Business • wine geeks • Wine Industry • winemaker • wine making • winemaking
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95854-3 / 0520958543
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95854-8 / 9780520958548