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Winner of Best Wine Book at the 2018 WCA Wine Communicator of the Year Awards
Australia became known as a wine drinking nation in the 1970s, and our national love affair with wine continues. Yet Australian winegrowing is as old as European Australia. While the Hunter Valley is not the ideal place to grow grapes climatically, it's the only Australian wine region planted in the nineteenth century to continuously host vineyards. Hunter Wine profiles the people, history and technology that have shaped the region's wine from vine to glass, including families like the Wyndhams, McWilliams, Lindemans and Tyrrells. It traces the evolution of Hunter winegrowing, and its winegrowers, from frontier violence in the 1820s and early British and German-born wine producers, to the development of large-scale vineyards and wineries in the early twentieth century, and the new style Hunter wines produced since the 1960s and 70s.
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About the Author
Julie McIntyre is a Research Fellow in History at The University of Newcastle and her publications include First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales (NewSouth 2012), winner of a Gourmand Publishing Prize and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Wine Research (UK).
John Germov is a sociologist and author of more than 20 books including his best-known work, The Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition (Oxford University Press). He is Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Education & Arts at The University of Newcastle and leads the university's Wine Studies Research Network.
Book Information
ISBN 9781742235769
Author Julie McIntyre
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint NewSouth Publishing
Publisher NewSouth Publishing
Australia became known as a wine drinking nation in the 1970s, and our national love affair with wine continues. Yet Australian winegrowing is as old as European Australia. While the Hunter Valley is not the ideal place to grow grapes climatically, it's the only Australian wine region planted in the nineteenth century to continuously host vineyards. Hunter Wine profiles the people, history and technology that have shaped the region's wine from vine to glass, including families like the Wyndhams, McWilliams, Lindemans and Tyrrells. It traces the evolution of Hunter winegrowing, and its winegrowers, from frontier violence in the 1820s and early British and German-born wine producers, to the development of large-scale vineyards and wineries in the early twentieth century, and the new style Hunter wines produced since the 1960s and 70s.
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- first history of Hunter wine for many years; covers the industry, the people, the success and the setbacks.
- includes the history of many of the big families in the Hunter wine industry such as the Wyndhams, McWilliams, Lindemans and Tyrrells.
- packed with images, many not been seen publicly before
- Julie McIntyre is one of Australia's foremost wine historians and an expert on the Hunter Valley.
About the Author
Julie McIntyre is a Research Fellow in History at The University of Newcastle and her publications include First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales (NewSouth 2012), winner of a Gourmand Publishing Prize and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Wine Research (UK).
John Germov is a sociologist and author of more than 20 books including his best-known work, The Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition (Oxford University Press). He is Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Education & Arts at The University of Newcastle and leads the university's Wine Studies Research Network.
Book Information
ISBN 9781742235769
Author Julie McIntyre
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint NewSouth Publishing
Publisher NewSouth Publishing
