The winemaker's dance : exploring terroir in the Napa Valley /
There is a saying among winemakers that "great wine begins with dirt." Beginning from this intriguing premise, The Winemaker's Dance embarks on an eye-opening exploration of "terroir" in one of the greatest places on earth to grow wine - California's Napa Valley. Jonath...
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
©2004.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt7zw2bf |
Sommario:
- The place and the notion
- Birth of a valley
- The underpinnings of terroir
- The tours: part 1
- Great wine begins with dirt
- The land and its climate
- Civilizing the vine
- The tours: part 2
- The winery: preserving character or shaping style?
- The winemaker's dance
- Some final, and fundamental, issues.