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Vino Business: The Cloudy World of French Wine
Isabelle Saporta
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Description for Vino Business: The Cloudy World of French Wine
Paperback. A shocking expose of France's wine industry by an acclaimed French journalist, Vino Business reveals the big-money deals, speculation, and shady practices that go on even in many of the most prestigious chateaux in Bordeaux and beyond. Translator(s): Deimling, Kate. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; KNDF; WBXD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 244 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
For centuries a bastion of tradition and the jewel in the crown of French viticulture, Bordeaux has in recent years become dogged by controversy, particularly regarding the 2012 classification of the wines of St.-Emilion, the most prestigious appellation of Bordeaux's right bank. St.-Emilion is an area increasingly dominated by big international investors, especially from China, who are keen to speculate on the area's wines and land, some of whose value has increased tenfold in the last decade alone. In the controversial 2012 classification, certain chateaux were promoted to a more prestigious class because of insider deals ... Read more
For centuries a bastion of tradition and the jewel in the crown of French viticulture, Bordeaux has in recent years become dogged by controversy, particularly regarding the 2012 classification of the wines of St.-Emilion, the most prestigious appellation of Bordeaux's right bank. St.-Emilion is an area increasingly dominated by big international investors, especially from China, who are keen to speculate on the area's wines and land, some of whose value has increased tenfold in the last decade alone. In the controversial 2012 classification, certain chateaux were promoted to a more prestigious class because of insider deals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611855432
SKU
V9781611855432
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99-10
About Isabelle Saporta
Isabelle Saporta is an investigative journalist and documentary film-maker. In 2011, she published The Black Book of Agriculture, which sold more than 60,000 copies in France alone. Vino Business is her first book to be translated into English. She lives in Paris.
Reviews for Vino Business: The Cloudy World of French Wine
Judging by the reaction to its publication it seems that this book, which concludes that more transparency is needed regarding the fabrication and classification of these great wines, is asking the right questions.
Le Parisien
The author, investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta, doesn't hold back in questioning the French institutions and traditions that the country's wine industry prides itself ... Read more
Le Parisien
The author, investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta, doesn't hold back in questioning the French institutions and traditions that the country's wine industry prides itself ... Read more