Creating Wine (eBook)

The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

James Simpson (Autor)

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2011
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3888-2 (ISBN)

Infos

James Simpson is professor of economic history and institutions at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is the author of Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765-1965.

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Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia, the industry is dominated by a handful of very large producers. This is the first book to trace the economic and historical forces that gave rise to very distinctive regional approaches to creating wine. James Simpson shows how the wine industry was transformed in the decades leading up to the First World War. Population growth, rising wages, and the railways all contributed to soaring European consumption even as many vineyards were decimated by the vine disease phylloxera. At the same time, new technologies led to a major shift in production away from Europe's traditional winemaking regions. Small family producers in Europe developed institutions such as regional appellations and cooperatives to protect their commercial interests as large integrated companies built new markets in America and elsewhere. Simpson examines how Old and New World producers employed diverging strategies to adapt to the changing global wine industry. Creating Wine includes chapters on Europe's cheap commodity wine industry; the markets for sherry, port, claret, and champagne; and the new wine industries in California, Australia, and Argentina.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2011
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 30 line illus. 55 tables. 13 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 1855 classification • Advertising • Agoston Haraszthy • Agriculture • Alcoholic beverage • alcohol industry • Algeria • American wine • American wine industry • Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty • Appellation • Argentina • Argentinian wine industry • Auction • Australia • Australian commodity chain • Australian wine • Australian wine industry • barriers to entry • Bordeaux • Bordeaux mixture • Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 • Bottle • Brand • Brand names • Britain • British Library • British ports • British wine market • Cabernet Sauvignon • California • Californian wine • California Wine • California Wine Association • Capital Market • Carbon dioxide • chain store • Champagne • champagne houses • champagne producers • cheap ports • cheap wines • claret • commercial relations • Commodity • Commodity chain • Comparative Advantage • Competition • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Customer • CWA • Dessert • dessert wine • dessert wines • distribution network • douro valley • dry table wine • dry wines • Economic agents • Economy of Australia • Employment • excise tax • Expense • Export • Factor Endowment • Family businesses • family retailer • Farmer • Fermentation • fine wines • fortified wine • France • Fraud • Free Trade • French Market • french wine • Gilbeys • Gironde • grape growing • Grape Production • GRAPES • Great Divergence • Guildhall Library • Hectare • Hogshead • imitation wines • Import • Import Duty • Industrial Revolution • international wine trade • James Busby • Jerez • John Nye (scientist) • laborer • Library • Malbec • Marketing • marketing costs • market integration • market organization • Market power • mass market • MIDI • New World producers • New World wine • Organizational change • overproduction • phylloxera • phylloxera vastatrix • plough • pomace • Port • Porto • Portugal • port wine • powdery mildew • preservative • Princeton University Press • Product Quality • Quantity • Railways • Recession • red wine • regional appellation • regional appellations • regional cooperatives • Restaurant • Retail • scientific viticulture • self-regulation • Sherry • shortage • Small farmers • small growers • small-scale production • South Australia • Spain • spanish wine • Special Collections • Subsidy • Sugar beet • Supply and Demand • Supply (economics) • table grape • Table wine • tariff • Tax • Technology • Terroir • Thomas J. Sargent • traditional wine producers • transaction cost • Transportation • urbanization • vertical integration • Victoria Wine Company • Vineyard • Vineyards • viticulture • white wine • wide variety • wine • wine adulteration • wine boom • Wine Cellar • wine consumption • wine cooperatives • wine export • Wine Industry • winemaker • wine making • winemaking • Wine Market • Wine Marketing • wine prices • wine production • wine quality • Wineries • Winery • World Economy • World War I • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3888-6 / 1400838886
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3888-2 / 9781400838882