Wild Olive or Science of Vine and Wine in France 1750 1990

Wild Olive

Author: Basil King

Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock.

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Science of Vine and Wine in France, 1750-1990

Author: Harry W Paul

This book examines the role of science in the civilization of wine in modern France by examining viticulture, the science of the wine itself, and oenology, the study of winemaking. Together they can boast of at least two major triumphs: the creation of the post-phylloxera vines that repopulated the late-nineteenth-century vineyards devastated by the disease; and the understanding of the complex structure of wine that eventually resulted in the development of the widespread wine models of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne. For those interested in agriculture, oenologists and historians of France, this is the first analysis of the scientific battle over how to save the French vineyards and the first account of the growth of oenological science in France since Chaptal and Pasteur.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Map of France
	Introduction	1
1	Death and Resurrection in the Phylloxeric Vineyard	9
2	Scientific Programs for the Spread of the Grafted Vine	44
3	Direct-Production Hybrids: Quality Wines?	65
4	The Fall of the Hybrid Empire and the Vinifera Victory	99
5	Jean-Antoine Chaptal	123
6	Louis Pasteur	155
7	Champagne: The Science of Bubbles	197
8	Burgundy: The Limits of Empirical Science	230
9	Languedoc-Roussillon: Innovations in Traditional Oenology	260
10	The Pasteurian Oenology of Ulysse Gayon	275
11	The Ionic Gospel of the New Oenology	288
12	The Institute of Oenology	327
	Conclusion: Mopping-up Operations or Contemporary Oenology as Normal Science	335
	Select Bibliography	349
	Index	353