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Riesling Rediscovered: Bold, Bright, and Dry
John Winthrop Haeger
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Description for Riesling Rediscovered: Bold, Bright, and Dry
Hardback. Riesling is the world's seventh most-planted white wine grape variety and among the fastest growing over the past twenty years. This book explores the history of Riesling to illuminate how this variety emerged from a crowded field of grape varieties grown widely across northern Europe. Num Pages: 330 pages, Map insert. BIC Classification: WBXD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Riesling is the world's seventh most-planted white wine grape variety and among the fastest growing over the past twenty years. It is a personal favorite of many sommeliers, chefs, and other food and wine professionals for its appealing aromatics, finesse, and minerality; for its uncanny ability to reflect terroir; and for its impressive versatility with cuisines of all types. It is stylistically paradoxical, however. Now usually made dry in most of Europe and Australia, and assumed dry by most German consumers, Riesling is made mostly sweet or lightly sweet in North America and is believed sweet in the American marketplace ... Read more
Riesling is the world's seventh most-planted white wine grape variety and among the fastest growing over the past twenty years. It is a personal favorite of many sommeliers, chefs, and other food and wine professionals for its appealing aromatics, finesse, and minerality; for its uncanny ability to reflect terroir; and for its impressive versatility with cuisines of all types. It is stylistically paradoxical, however. Now usually made dry in most of Europe and Australia, and assumed dry by most German consumers, Riesling is made mostly sweet or lightly sweet in North America and is believed sweet in the American marketplace ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1008g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520275454
SKU
V9780520275454
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Ref
99-34
About John Winthrop Haeger
John Winthrop Haeger is a sinologist, historian, and academic administrator who has written about wine since 1985 for Connoisseur, Wine & Spirits, Saveur, and other publications. He is the author of North American Pinot Noir (2004) and Pacific Pinot Noir (2008), both published by UC Press.
Reviews for Riesling Rediscovered: Bold, Bright, and Dry
"What makes the book so encompassing, informative, and relevant is that Haeger has avoided focusing on viticulture or enology or economy in isolation, and has instead looked at all of them in their historic and contemporary scientific and socio-cultural context... Not everyone loves Riesling, but those of us who do will find our passion articulately explained and expressed in Haeger's ... Read more