Women of wine : the rise of women in the global wine industry / Ann B. Matasar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matasar, Ann B., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the wine industry.

Wine industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This inspiring, engagingly written book, with its personal approach and global scope, is the first to explore women's increasingly influential role in the wine industry, traditionally a very male-dominated domain. Women of Wine draws on interviews with dozens of leading women winemakers, estate owners, professors, sommeliers, wine writers, and others in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere to create a fascinating mosaic of the women currently shaping the wine world that also offers a revealing insiders' look at the wine industry. To set the stage, Ann B. Matasar chronicles the historical barriers to women's participation in the industry, reviews post-World War II changes that created new opportunities for them, and pays tribute to a few extraordinary nineteenth-century women who left their mark on wine despite the odds against them. She then turns to her primary topic: an accessible discussion of women associated with some of the most prestigious wineries and institutions in both the Old and New Worlds that emphasizes their individual and collective contributions. Matasar also considers issues of importance to women throughout the business world including mentors, networking, marriage, family, education, self-employment versus the corporate life, and risk taking.

Contents:

Women need not apply

Wine : not your typical agricultural product

A toast to the past

Terroir : uniquely French and untranslatable

Le donne del vino

The new world : California

The new world : the Southern Hemisphere

Knowledge is power

Uncorking sales

Past, present, future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612357336

9781282357334

1282357336

9780520930704

0520930703

9781601293831

1601293836

OCLC:

475990153