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Vine to Bottle - How Wine is Made (Hardcover)

by Simon Woods (Author), Jason Lowe (Photographer)

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Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley; illustrated edition edition (1 April 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1840003391
ISBN-13: 978-1840003390
Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21 x 2.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Few transformations are as intriguing as that of a grape into wine. Vine to Bottle is a unique account of the energy, passion and expertise that go into the production of a wine. The author and photographer visited a winemaker and his team at key periods throughout the year to create a personal yet comprehensive tale of the winemaking process. Two producers are featured - a traditional small-scale producer in Burgundy and a large industrial-scale producer in the south of France - to highlight every choice that a winemaker has to make in the vineyard, winery and cellar. Every stage of winemaking is explored, from the influence of terroir, through the life of the vine and grape, the harvest, the winemaking and the manipulation of a wine, to how the bottles are marketed, sold and distributed. And for every stage, inspirational literary snapshots of everyday life reveal how people, nature and science interact to create the finest possible vintage.

About the Author

Simon Woods is the co-author of The Mitchell Beazley Red Wine Guide and White Wine Guide. He is also co-author of the Which? Wine Guide, which won the Rose Award at the 1997 Prix du Champagne Lanson. He writes regularly for Wine magazine and has appeared on radio and television.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly readable insight into the process of winemaking, 15 May 2001

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Too many wine books set out to educate; too few are actually a 'good read'. It's understandable� after all, wine is a ferociously complicated subject. And one of the most complicated aspects is how the stuff is actually made. This is why a book like this is so welcome, because it's about making wine, it's genuinely a good read, and along the way you learn quite a bit.

The concept? Wine writer Simon Woods, accompanied by photographer Jason Lowe, set out to track the course of the vintage at two locations -- Louis Jadot in Burgundy and Domaine de La Baume in the Languedoc. The book that resulted is a mixture of narrative and photography, beautifully laid out and produced in a very elegant format. The photography is quite striking. Lowe has taken some risks and deviated from the standard wine book fare of vineyard shots and bunches of ripe grapes, preferring to catalogue a much more nuts and bolts montage of winemaking imagery. Most of the time this works brilliantly, although a couple of the compositions look a bit dodgy to my admittedly untrained eye.

It's a story told very much in the third person: Woods is strictly an observer and doesn't involve himself at all. But he's consistent, and the text is pretty polished. When he strays onto areas of controversy -- and there are lots of these in winemaking -- a tactful line is taken, and where opinions are expressed they are well judged and balanced.

Overall, I found this a great read, giving some real insight into the process of growing grapes and making wine. Criticisms? Well, I would have liked more substance -- possibly covering more (or different) producers, and scratching a bit deeper below the surface. The book is over remarkably quickly and ends a bit abruptly, leaving me wanting more. But this aside, kudos to the author, photographer and publishers for taking a bit of a risk, and in the process producing a well conceived, good looking and interesting book.

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