Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford companion to the wines of North America / edited by Bruce Cass ; consultant editor, Jancis Robinson.

Publication

• Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
• ©2000

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cass, Bruce
• Robinson, Jancis

Description

xv, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

Surveys Canada, Mexico, and the United States for great vintages and wine-growing regions, in alphabetical entries that cover a host of wine topics.

Alternative Title

Wines of North America

Subject

• Wine and wine making > North America
• Wine and wine making
• Wein
• North America
• Nordamerika

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Wine and the American consumer / Jon Fredrickson -- How good are North American wines? / Jancis Robinson -- Commentators and the wine media / Jancis Robinson -- The prohibition paradox / Dan Berger -- The US Wine Distribution System / Jean-Michel Valette -- Cybersales and the future / Peter Granoff -- Wine service in the US / Larry Stone -- American wine auctions / Fritz Hatton -- Recent advances in North American winemaking / Merry Edwards -- Microbiology in North American wine / Ron Subden -- North American viticulture / Philip Freese -- Labor in the North American vineyard / Bruce Cass -- The vine family in North America / Lucie T. Morton -- North American geneticists untangle the vine variety web / Carole Meredith -- Organic wine in North America / Jim Lapsley -- A-Z text.
• Appendices: Matching food and wine in North America / Larry Stone -- Classic American foods with wine suggestions / Bruce Cass -- Lists of US states by vineyard acreage and number of wineries -- Maps of North American wine-growing regions.

ISBN

• 9780198601142
• 019860114X

LCCN

2001274372

OCLC

• ocm59563945
• 59563945
• SCSB-1146132

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library