Authentic wine : toward natural and sustainable winemaking / Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop.

Includes index.

Introduction -- The diversity of wine : how a natural approach can help preserve wine's interest -- Terroir -- Grafted vines -- Biodynamics and organics -- Sustainable winegrowing -- When winemakers intervene : the chemical and physical manipulation of wine -- The natural wine movement -- Yeasts, wild and cultured -- Ripeness and high alcohol -- Wine faults -- The carbon footprint of wine -- Marketing authentic wine -- Conclusions.

Print version record.

Naturalness is a hot topic in the wine world. But what exactly is a "natural wine"? For this pioneering book, best-selling wine writer Jamie Goode has teamed up with winemaker and Master of Wine Sam Harrop to explore the wide range of issues surrounding authenticity in wine. They begin by emphasizing that wine's diversity, one of its strengths, is currently under threat from increasingly homogenized commercial wines that lack a sense of place. Drawing on a global array of examples and anecdotes, Goode and Harrop examine complex concepts--terroir, biodynamics, and sustainability--in clear languag

English.

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