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The Wines of California - Elaine Chukan Brown

The Wines of California

Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2025
ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED (Verlag)
978-1-913141-87-5 (ISBN)
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Presents serious readers and students of wine with a single concise, complete, cohesive book on the world's fourth largest wine producer – California. Covers the general history, geography and vineyard structure before focusing on each region and its producers in detail. Concludes with an analysis of the future for the California wine industry.
As the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, California could easily be written about in multiple regional installments, but here California wine expert Elaine Chukan Brown presents serious readers and students of wine with a single concise, complete, smartly delivered and cohesive book on the subject. The book is divided into three major sections. The first presents the key ideas that help make sense of California wine as a whole, including the history of California wine in brief, how the topography delivers California’s overarching climatic and soil conditions, and the basics of vineyard and winery factors relevant to the state. The large middle section of the book examines each of the California wine regions in turn. The focus through this regional section is on the growing conditions within the particular region, varietal trends, how location has factored into each region's historical development, and how to differentiate the recognised American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) within the region. Key facts are summarised in easy-reference boxes within the text. Significant producers who have had an influence on the development of the region are discussed and highlighted in the body of the text as well as featuring in a quick-reference box at the end of each chapter. In the third major section Chukan Brown takes an analytical look at the industry now and by looking at key themes that have emerged in the industry examines what the future may hold for Californian wines.

Elaine Chukan Brown serves as a writer, speaker, and global wine educator. Brown is the Napa Valley specialist for Wine Enthusiast and previously served as the Executive Editor US for JancisRobinson.com, a columnist for Decanter magazine, and a contributing writer to Wine & Spirits magazine. They contributed to both the 4th and 5th editions of Oxford Companion to Wine, the 8th edition of the World Atlas of Wine, and the compilations On Burgundy and On California from Académie du Vin Library. Indigenous (Inupiaq and Unangan-Sugpiaq) from what is now Alaska, Brown has dedicated their career to the intersection of sustainability, climate action, and reducing gatekeeping in the wine industry. They co-founded the Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum and have advised diversity initiatives in multiple countries. Brown serves as a judge for the Texsom Awards, head judge for the 67 Pall Mall Communicator Awards, and is a board member of the Wine Writer Symposium.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.3.2025
Reihe/Serie The Classic Wine Library
Zusatzinfo 30 Illustrations, color
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Getränke
ISBN-10 1-913141-87-X / 191314187X
ISBN-13 978-1-913141-87-5 / 9781913141875
Zustand Neuware
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