A History of Italian Wine - Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends, progressively building the current excellent reputation of Italian wine in the world market.
Using unpublished sources and a vast bibliography, authors highlight the main factors favoring this evolution: public institutional support to viticulture; the birth and the growth of Italian wine entrepreneurship; the improvement in quality of the winemaking processes; the increasing relevance of viticulture and winemaking in Italian agricultural production and export; and the emergence of wine as a cultural product.

List of contents

1. Why a Comprehensive History of the Italian Wine?.- 2. Institutional Innovation and Public Policies.- 3. Winemakers.- 4. Production, Trade, and Consumption.- 5. Italy Tasting: Wine, Tourism, and Landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Luc Maffi, Luciano Maffi, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2023
• EAN: 9783031060991
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3106099-1
• No. of pages: 241
• Illustrations: XI, 241 p. 21 illus., 14 illus. in color.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories