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The vineyard at the end of the world maverick winemakers and the rebirth of malbec

Mount, Ian more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Junior Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Food & drink / cookery: general interest
Audience: General/trade ; Professional and scholarly
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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For generations, Argentine wine was famously bad oxidized, unpalatable, and often mixed with a low-class French grape called Malbec. But then in 2001, a Cabernet Sauvignon / Malbec blend beat all contenders in a blind taste test featuring Napa and Bordeaux s finest. Today, Argentina and its signature wine are on the tip of every smart travelers tongue. How did this happen? The Vineyard at the End of the World tells the fascinating, four-hundred-year history of how a wine mecca arose in the high Andean desert. Profiling the outlandish figures who fueled the Malbec revolution including celebrity enologist Michel Rolland, acclaimed American winemaker Paul Hobbs, and the Mondavi-esque Catena family Ian Mount describes in colorful detail the nefarious scams, brilliant business innovations, and backroom politics that put Malbec on the map.

Ian Mount has found an important void in the current library of wine books: Mendoza and Malbec. The history is fascinating.--George Taber

Title: The vineyard at the end of the world
Subtitle: maverick winemakers and the rebirth of malbec
Contributors: By (author) Ian Mount

ISBN 13: 9780393080193
ISBN 10: 0393080196

Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: Food & drink / cookery: general interest
Dewey Classification: 641.220982 (DC23)
NBS Classification: Wines

Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
Height: 242mm
Width: 161mm
Thickness: 26mm
Weight: 624g