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The art and science of wine / James Halliday and Hugh Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halliday, James, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine and wine making.
- Wine districts.
- Wine and wine making--Chemistry.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : color illustrations, map, portraits ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- A well-illustrated updated edition of a classic on wine and winemaking. The authors look at all aspects of wine's complexity and personality: including the latest developments in growing, choices vintars make, and detail production for nine wine styles.
- Contents:
- In the vineyard. The vine
- Terroir
- Climate
- Which variety of vine?
- Sculpting the vine
- Quantity vs.quality?
- Plague and pestilence
- Irrigation
- Mechanization
- In the winery. Making the wine
- National attitude and regional characters
- Light-bodied white wines
- Wooded and full-bodied white wines
- Sparkling wines
- Sweet table wines
- Light-bodied red wines
- Medium-bodied red wines
- Full-bodied red wines
- Fortified wines
- Oak and wine
- In the bottle. The chemistry and methods of analysis of wine
- The changes of age
- Wine faults
- The manipulation of wine
- The great closure debate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781554072477
- 1554072476
- OCLC:
- 74028904
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