A History of Italian Wine: Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends, progressively building the current excellent reputation of Italian wine in the world market. Using unpublished sources and a vast bibliography, authors highlight the main factors favoring this evolution: public institutional support to viticulture; the birth and the growth of Italian wine entrepreneurship; the improvement in quality of the winemaking processes; the increasing relevance of viticulture and winemaking in Italian agricultural production and export; and the emergence of wine as a cultural product.

• | Author: Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, Paolo Tedeschi, Luciano Maffi
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 3031060962
• | ISBN-13: 9783031060960