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Informationen zum Autor Mike Veseth is professor emeritus of international political economy at the University of Puget Sound. He is editor of the award-winning blog The Wine Economist and author of several books on the business and pleasure of wine, including Extreme Wine; Money, Taste, and Wine ; and Around the World in Eighty Wines , which received the 2018 Gourmand International award for “Best U.S. Book in Wine and Spirits Tourism” and is included on BookAuthority.com’s lists of the “Best Wine Books of All Time” and “Best Wine Audiobooks of All Time.” He currently lives in Tacoma, WA. Klappentext Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market trends that are redrawing the world wine map and the terroirists who resist them. Wine and the wine business are at a critical crossroad today, transformed by three powerful forces. Veseth begins with the first force, globalization, which is shifting the center of the wine world as global wine markets provide enthusiasts with a rich but overwhelming array of choices. Two Buck Chuck, the second force, symbolizes the rise of branded products like the famous Charles Shaw wines sold in Trader Joe's stores. Branded corporate wines simplify the worldwide wine market and give buyers the confidence they need to make choices, but they also threaten to dumb down wine, sacrificing terroir to achieve marketable McWine reliability. Will globalization and Two Buck Chuck destroy the essence of wine? Perhaps, but not without a fight, Veseth argues. He counts on "the revenge of the terroirists " to save wine's soul. But it won't be easy as wine expands to exotic new markets such as China and the very idea of terroir is attacked by both critics and global climate change. Veseth has "grape expectations" that globalization, Two Buck Chuck, and the revenge of the terroirists will uncork a favorable future for wine in an engaging tour-de-force that will appeal to all lovers of wine, whether it be boxed, bagged, or bottled. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude: Grape Expectations? 1. A Tale of Two Glasses 2. Old Bottles, New Wine Flight One: Globalization-Blessing or Curse? 3. The DaVino Code 4. Missionaries, Migrants, and Market Reforms 5. The Masters of Wine 6. Curse of the Blue Nun 7. America's Hangover Globalization Tasting Flight Two: The Miracle of Two Buck Chuck 8. Martians versus Wagnerians 9. They Always Buy the Ten Cent Wine 10. Everyone's a Critic 11. The McWine Conspiracy 12. The Future of Wine in Three Bottles Two Buck Chuck Tasting Flight Three: Revenge of the Terroirists 13. Mondovino and the Revenge of the Terroirists 14. The War on Terroir 15. The China Syndrome 16. The Best of Wines or the Worst of Wines? Grape Expectations Tasting ...
