WINES. CONTEXTUALIZATION AND VITICULTURE (VOLUME I)

First edition: December 2018

Second edition: September 2019

The first of the eight volumes that make up the Wine Sapiens series addresses the contextualization of wine. In short, it tries to answer a question as fundamental and, at the same time, as broad and ambiguous as “What is wine?”

To this end, this first volume approaches the actual concept of wine from differing angles. Further, wine is compared to other beverages analysing aspects such as its production, the market for wine, its socio-cultural environment, etc. This book also looks at agriculture and, more particularly, viticulture and the vineyards, the vine nurseries, the winegrowers, the winemakers working their own vines and the different philosophies that apply within vineyards. It places a special emphasis on the geological and climatic conditions that make the wines so different from each other.

This book would not have been possible without the collaboration of Vila Viniteca, who helped us greatly throughout this wonderful project.

In the making of this volume, we have been able to count on experts such as Pedro Ballesteros MW, Fernando Martínez de Toda and José Luis Ramos Sáez de Ojer.

Presentation of the English version in May 2023.