The Complete Guide to New World Wines Book

Anyone who has been at all excited by the tastes of wines from Australia, New Zealand, Chile, South Africa or any of the other new wine-producing regions, need look no further than New World Wines. A committed and dedicated enthusiast, Julie Arkell is an expert guide to this astonishingly varied and exciting subject. It's hard now to remember a time before California, Chile, New Zealand, Australia and the other "new" wine regions, but it really isn't many years since the only acceptable wines available were French or German, with a number of disturbingly unpleasant regional table wines, Spanish perhaps or Italian, tagging along behind. The rise of the New World has been astonishingly rapid, driven by entrepreneurial energy and the application, unhindered by tradition, of all that technological innovation can offer. (Global Positioning by Satellite, for example, is now employed to determine to within a matter of yards the location of unmanned harvesters, allowing the grower to chart the quality of grapes from each tiny patch of land.)Systematically organised by country, New World Wines outlines the geography, principal grape varieties (an extraordinary subject in itself) and regions of each, compress a lifetime's experience and erudition into compact but remarkably readable form. An introduction on the characteristics of the New World wines is followed by profiles of the most prominent wine-makers, fitting faces and often vivid personalities to some of the best known wine names. --Robin DavidsonRead More