The New French Wine: Redefining the World's Greatest Wine Culture [Two-Book Boxed Set]

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A very deep dive into the current state of French wine making, written for people who are already deeply interested in the subject. This two-volume set of books is the most comprehensive survey of the French wine industry and its significant producers we have seen in two decades. It focuses on the evolution happening in France as growers and vintners adapt to changes in consumer expectations, technology, and climate. It is a work of impressive authority and passion. Author Jon Bonné is the former chief wine critic of The San Francisco Chronicle and the winner of numerous awards for his wine writing. Although he includes brief explanations of certain key vocabulary words, Bonné is writing here for an audience that already understands the fundamentals of wine and is strongly interested in the future of wine and winemaking. It’s quickly clear that the world of French wine is not monolithic and that there is a multitude of voices and opinions on what change means and how to cope with it. Bonné acknowledges and reports on a wide range of them, and is not hesitant about offering his own perspective as well. For example: “The wines of Burgundy have been a study in inconsistency. I mean this in both their notoriously uneven quality but also in the characteristics of the wines themselves.” In what we take to be the first volume called The Narrative (it is not numbered but contains an introduction) Bonné begins by broadly outlining the state of affairs as he sees it, and then provides

• Binding: Hardcover

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