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Postmodern winemaking : rethinking the modern science of an ancient craft /

In Postmodern Winemaking, Smith shares knowledge he has accumulated in engaging, humorous, and erudite essays that convey a new vision of the winemaker's craft-one that credits the crucial roles played by both science and art in the winemaking process. Smith, a leading innovator in red wine pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Clark, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of California Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The solution problem
  • 2. Creating the conditions for graceful aging
  • 3. Building structure: the basic tool kit
  • 4. The seven functions of oak
  • 5. Vineyard enology: the power of showing up
  • 6. The vicinal diphenol cascade: red wine's defining reaction
  • 7. Redoc redux: measuring wine's oxygen uptake capacity
  • 8. Speculations on minerality
  • 9. Winemaking at high pH
  • 10. Integrated brettanomyces management
  • 11. Harmony and astringency: nice and rough
  • 12. Winemaking's lunatic heroes
  • 13. Gideon Beinstock's Mountain Magic: handling extreme terroir
  • 14. Randall Graham: California dreamer in search of the miraculous
  • 15. Bob Wample: thinking like a grape
  • 16. Pressing matters: a postmodern tale
  • 17. Some like it hot
  • 18. The new filtrations: winemaking's power tools
  • 19. Flash dâetente: winemaking game changer
  • 20. Spoofulated or artisanal?
  • 21. Science and byodynamics: the limits of rationalism
  • 22. Natural wine nonsense
  • 23. Yeast inoculation: threat or menace?
  • 24. New world identity and judging reform
  • 25. Liquid music: resonance in wine
  • Appendices.