10 Great Wine Families

A Tour Through Europe

Fiona Morrison (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2019
ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED (Verlag)
978-1-913141-01-1 (ISBN)

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An up-close and personal insight into 10 of Europe’s most celebrated winemaking families that chronicles their triumphs, trials and tribulations through successive generations.

Fiona Morrison, awarded the coveted Master of Wine in 1994, is a talented writer and winemaker who works closely with her husband, Jacques Thienpont, helping to make the wine and manage their three Bordeaux estates – Le Pin (Pomerol, home to one of the world’s most prestigious red wines), L’IF (Saint-Emilion) and Château L’Hêtre (Côtes de Castillon). Fiona has over 30 years' experience in the fine wine trade on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Fiona Morrison Thienpont has written a book from a viewpoint no other writer, as far as I know, has ever possessed: a seat at the heart of the action.” – Hugh Johnson

"It all comes down to succession: how a family can hold together over the course of generations, continuing to build on the success of their vines and their ancestors. Wine is one of the rare businesses in which this level of international fame and internal family politics plays out over centuries—unless you consider royalty a business. So, it makes for an unusual sociological study and compelling prose." – Joshua Greene, Wine & Spirits

Fiona Morrison MW is Managing Director of Thienpont Wine, an international wine merchant and négociant and with her husband, Jacques Thienpont, runs their three Bordeaux estates, Le Pin in Pomerol, L'IF in Saint Emilion and L'Hêtre in Castillon. She has been heavily involved in the Institute of Masters of Wine and writes books and lectures, as well as consulting for Brussels Airlines.

SUMMER
Familia Torres – Penedès, Spain
Regeneration in Catalonia
p12
Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi – Tuscany, Italy
Wine saves a medieval dynasty
p38
Weingut Emmerich Knoll – Wachau, Austria
A phoenix rising beside the Danube
p66
AUTUMN
Famille Thienpont – Bordeaux, France
Belgium colonizes the Right Bank of Bordeaux
p94
Descendientes de J Palacios – Bierzo, Rioja, Priorat, Spain
Pilgrims, pioneers and matadors
p126
Niepoort Ports & Wines – Douro Valley, Portugal
A varietal uprising in the Douro
p154
WINTER
Gaja – Barbaresco, Italy
Maestros and earth goddesses
p184
Egon Müller – Scharzhofberg, Mosel, Germany
Man, mountain, river and grape
p214
SPRING
Liger-Belair – Burgundy, France
Restoring a grand cru heritage
p242
Famille Perrin – Rhône, France
Family collaboration
p268
Conclusion p292

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2022
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, black and white; 131 Illustrations, color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 230 mm
Gewicht	936 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	1-913141-01-2 / 1913141012
ISBN-13	978-1-913141-01-1 / 9781913141011
Zustand	Neuware