This book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on Portuguese wine, examines the terroirs that make this small but varied country so unique. It divides Portugal into four areas: Atlantic, Mountain, the Plains and the Islands. Within these there are detailed descriptions of the wine regions, the growers and the wines they produce.

In this exuberant book, the authors share their adventures on the China wine trail, meeting the farmers, entrepreneurs, and teachers who are changing the wine world. They explore wine tourism hot spots, talk to winemakers searching for good grapes, and take us to lush mountains and arid deserts, all in the search for the future of Chinese wine.

Wine, Terroir and Utopia critically explores these three concepts from multi-disciplinary and intersecting perspectives, focusing on the ways in which they collide to make new worlds, new wines, new places and new peoples. Wine, terroir and utopia are all rooted in natural, spatial and temporal realities, yet all are unable to exist without purposeful human intervention. This edited volume highlights the theoretical and analytical lens of diverse scholars, who critically discuss a dazzling array of intersecting realities and imaginaries - economic, political, cultural, social and geological - and in doing this challenge many of our deeply-held responses to utopia. Drawing on an impressive range of international examples from South Africa to Bordeaux to New Zealand, the chapters adopt a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. This volume will be of great interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in the fields of Sociology, Geography, Tourism, Hospitality, Wine Studies and Cultural Studies. It will also greatly appeal to practitioners and enthusiasts in the worlds of wine production, consumption and marketing.

"The Globalization of Wine is a one-stop guide to understanding wine across the world today. Examining a broad range of developments in the wine world, it considers the social, cultural, economic, political and geographical dimensions of wine globalization. It investigates how large-scale changes in production, distribution and consumption are transforming the wine that we drink. Comprehensive background discussion is complemented by vivid case study chapters from a variety of international contributors. Many different countries and regions are covered, including China, the USA and Hong Kong, as are key themes, debates and controversies in contemporary wine worlds. Innovative, up-to-date and interdisciplinary, The Globalization of Wine illustrates the diversity and complexity of wine globalization processes across the planet, both in the past and at the present time. It is essential reading for academics and students in food and drink studies, sociology, anthropology, globalization studies, geography and cultural studies. It also provides a jargon-free resource for wine professionals and connoisseurs."--

The wines of Chablis and the Grand Auxerrois features the history, vineyards, crus and viticultural methods of Burgundy's most northerly wine growing region, exploring how wine is made in Chablis in the 21st century. The bulk of the book profiles producers of Chablis and the most important wine growers of the adjacent area, the Grand Auxerrois.