I got a lead on this source from a Wikipedia article and then used the keyword search in the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/) to locate relevant passages. The actual text is available online and at our library.
Yeo, Cedric. "The Rise of the Plantation in Ancient Italy and Modern America." The Classical Journal, Vol. 51, No. 8 (May, 1956), pp. 391-395.
JSTOR search...and a few articles about wine in contemporary economics, found via Google search:
Wallop, Harry. "Wine Buyers defy credit crunch." Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/3067231/Wine-buyers-defy-credit-crunch.html
"Wine = $33 Billion." Available at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_2_81/ai_60015233
Rainey, James. "UFW Wins Contract with Gallo." LA Times. 2 September 2000: A24. Available at: http://articles.latimes.com/2000/sep/02/news/mn-14527
. Jenny Filipetti .
4 comments:
Wine's a great topic, and I think you would have enough to discuss even if you just focused on the classification of wine alone, i.e. geography vs. grape. How the older tradition of classifying by geography in France and Portugal gave way to classification by grape in California, Australia, or Chile. It seems like there would definitely be something to discuss there.
i think there's definitely potential to explore wine snobbery, branding, and consumption. see, for instance, "Why Expensive Wine Tastes Better" http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/why-expensive-wine-tastes-better.htm
The politics of wine, especially in terms of what can be called Champagne as compared to sparkling wine, would be an interesting aspect to explore. There are a lot of different organizations and international rulings that relate specifically to legal classifications of wines. There are also regional organizations that impose quality standards for all wine from that region, which I think is a pretty odd principle.
-George Warner
hi
During WWII,
A lot of France's vines were transported to Chile.
Today no one really knows if Chile's wine is really chilean or french and vice-versa.
hope it helps
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