Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Agriculture - Enology & Viticulture

Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world.

Presents topical research on the varieties, cultivation and management of grapevines. This book discusses such topics as: grapevine pathogens spreading with propagation plant stock; status of grape breeding and viticulture; and, implications for soil and plant nutrition for different cultivation methods in vineyards.