The World of Sicilian Wine (eBook)

Bill Nesto, Frances Di Savino (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95507-3 (ISBN)

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The World of Sicilian Wine provides wine lovers with a comprehensive understanding of Sicilian wine, from its ancient roots to its modern evolution. Offering a guide and map to exploring Sicily, Bill Nesto, an expert in Italian wine, and Frances Di Savino, a student of Italian culture, deliver a substantive appreciation of a vibrant wine region that is one of Europe's most historic areas and a place where many cultures intersect. From the earliest Greek and Phoenician settlers who colonized the island in the eighth century B.C., the culture of wine has flourished in Sicily. A parade of foreign rulers was similarly drawn to Sicily's fertile land, sun-filled climate, and strategic position in the Mediterranean. The modern Sicilian quality wine industry was reborn in the 1980s and 1990s with the arrival of wines made with established international varieties and state-of-the-art enology. Sicily is only now rediscovering the quality of its indigenous grape varieties, such as Nero d'Avola, Nerello Mascalese, Frappato, Grillo, and distinctive terroirs such as the slopes of Mount Etna.

Inhalt

List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Preface

1. The Origins of Sicilian Wine and Culture
2. The Lost Opportunity: 1775 to 1950
3. The Modern Sicilian Wine Industry
4. Perpetual Wine
5. The Geography of Sicily
6. Vine Varieties
7. Viticulture in Sicily
8. Enology in Sicily
9. At the Heart of Sicily
10. Understanding Sicilian Wine by Place: The Three Valleys
11. Val di Mazara
12. Val di Noto
13. Val Demone
14. The Garden-Vineyard

Afterword
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Schlagworte: Climate • cooking • Culinary • Culture • detailed history • distinctive terroirs • engaging • enology • florid terms • food and wine • food science • frappato • Gastronomy • grape varieties • Grillo • Historical • History • History of Wine • indigenous grape • Italian culture • Italy • Mediterranean • Mount Etna • nerello mascalese • nero davola • phoenician settlers • regional wines • sicilian wine • sicily • Travel • Travel Guide • Vineyard • wine • Wine Culture • Wine Industry • wine lovers • winemaking • Wine regions
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95507-2 / 0520955072
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95507-3 / 9780520955073