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In this complete and approachable manual on grape growing in Texas, Jim Kamas asks the essential question all potential growers need to answer: Why do you want to plant a vineyard? Outlining the challenges and risks to all who think viticulture is a weekend hobby, Kamas then identifies the state's current grape growing regions and covers everything the commercial or home producer needs to know in order to have a successful vineyard.Well-illustrated text offers chapters on site choice and design, rootstock and fruiting varieties, pruning and training strategies, canopy and floor management, and

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The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the earliest stages of vinicultural history and prehistory, which extends back into the Neolithic period and beyond. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Ancient Wine opens up whole new chapters in the fascinating story of wine and the vine by drawing upon recent archaeological discoveries, molecular and DNA sleuthing, and the texts and art of long-forgotten peoples. Patrick McGovern takes us on a personal odyssey back to the beginnings of this consequential beverage when early hominids probably enjoyed a wild grape wine. We follow the course of human ingenuity in domesticating the Eurasian vine and learning how to make and preserve wine some 7,000 years ago. Early winemakers must have marveled at the seemingly miraculous process of fermentation. From success to success, viniculture stretched out its tentacles and entwined itself with one culture after another (whether Egyptian, Iranian, Israelite, or Greek) and laid the foundation for civilization itself. As medicine, social lubricant, mind-altering substance, and highly valued commodity, wine became the focus of religious cults, pharmacopoeias, cuisines, economies, and society. As an evocative symbol of blood, it was used in temple ceremonies and occupies the heart of the Eucharist. Kings celebrated their victories with wine and made certain that they had plenty for the afterlife. (Among the colorful examples in the book is McGovern's famous chemical reconstruction of the funerary feast--and mixed beverage--of "King Midas.") Some peoples truly became "wine cultures.? When we sip a glass of wine today, we recapitulate this dynamic history in which a single grape species was harnessed to yield an almost infinite range of tastes and bouquets. Ancient Wine is a book that wine lovers and archaeological sleuths alike will raise their glasses to.

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La profonde crise qui depuis plus de dix ans secoue le vignoble bordelais et met en péril bien des exploitations a fait l'objet de nombreuses analyses. Pour autant tout ne paraît pas avoir été dit dans la mesure où celles-ci ont surtout été le fait d'économistes qui, est c'est bien logique, ont mis l'accent sur le marché. Aussi, les solutions proposées sont avant tout des propositions économiques ne prenant que rarement en compte les problèmes sociaux et jamais les territoriaux. D'un parti pris volontairement opposé, cet « essai géographique sur la crise du bordeaux » place le curseur sur l'avenir des terroirs, ces territoires de production de vin de qualité construit dans la longue durée de leur histoire par les organisations de producteurs qui les ont créés et qui les font durer. Après une mise en perspective de leur genèse, l'ouvrage aborde les menaces qui pèsent sur ces terroirs, puis les auteurs avancent des pistes de réflexion en direction d'une reterritorialisation des appellations d'origine contrôlée. C'est en effet pour eux la seule façon de maintenir le dense tissu de cette agriculture paysanne qui a fait la force des terroirs dans le passé et qui semble en mesure d'assurer leur développement durable.

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