Bordeaux, Burgundy: story of a rivalry

• Author: JEAN-ROBERT PITTE
• Publisher: Taillandier
• Language: French
• Publication date: 10/2016
• Number of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 12x18 cm
• Weight: 300g
• Format: softcover
• ISBN: 9791021020849

Presentation:

Bordeaux and Burgundy: two opposing civilizations, two rival ambitions to produce the best wines in the world. What do this well-rounded Burgundian and this refined, upper-middle-class Bordeaux native have in common, other than their shared passion for excellence? To bridge this French divide, Jean-Robert Pitte draws on the entire cultural and economic history of the two vineyards and the companies that farm them.

Because quality has a history, and is not due to the physical terroir alone, as some like to claim. It is above all the fruit of the know-how developed over the centuries by these professionals without whom there would be no great wines: pedologists, agronomists, biologists, oenologists, sommeliers, etc. These combined talents have always had the sole aim of satisfying the enlightened wine connoisseur. Today, international competition is challenging the supremacy of French wines by attacking them on an area where they would never have thought to be contested: quality.

Bordeaux and Burgundy wines will only be able to continue to establish themselves on the international market by asserting their respective specificities, without giving in to the ease of a globalized taste.

The author:

President of the Geographical Society and the French Wine Academy, member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Jean-Robert Pitte is the author of numerous works on cultural history and geography. His most recent publications include 'The Desire of Wine to Conquer the World' (2009), 'A European Family' (2011), 'The History of the French Landscape' (1983), 'Wine and the Divine' (2004) and 'Bordeaux-Burgundy'.
Rival Passions' (2007). For 30 years, he has been conducting extensive research on the geography of gastronomy and wine.

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