TY - BOOK AU - Vaquero PiƱeiro,Manuel AU - Tedeschi,Paolo AU - Maffi,Luciano TI - A History of Italian Wine: Culture, Economics, and Environment in the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries SN - 9783031060977 U1 - 940 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Europe-History KW - Science-History KW - Italy-History KW - Food science KW - Economic history KW - European History KW - History of Science KW - History of Italy KW - Food Studies KW - Economic History N1 - 1. Why a Comprehensive History of the Italian Wine? -- 2. Institutional Innovation and Public Policies -- 3. Winemakers -- 4. Production, Trade, and Consumption -- 5. Italy Tasting: Wine, Tourism, and Landscape N2 - This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends, progressively building the current excellent reputation of Italian wine in the world market. Using unpublished sources and a vast bibliography, authors highlight the main factors favoring this evolution: public institutional support to viticulture; the birth and the growth of Italian wine entrepreneurship; the improvement in quality of the winemaking processes; the increasing relevance of viticulture and winemaking in Italian agricultural production and export; and the emergence of wine as a cultural product UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06097-7 ER -