First vintage : wine in colonial New South Wales
McIntyre, Julie2012
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Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Phillip's garden at Circular Quay, or that botanist Joseph Banks encouraged plans to create a wine industry from the earliest years of the colony
Main title:
First vintage : wine in colonial New South Wales / by Julie McIntyre
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney NewSouth Publishing 2012
Collation:
247 p. illustrations
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Contemporary wine regions of New South Wales -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1: Ideas of wine on the First Fleet -- 2: British names for wine and why they mattered -- 3: Grape vines on the First Fleet -- 4: First vineyards, first vintages -- 5: Intelligent industry -- 6: Colonial wine to create sobriety -- 7: A new generation of wine growers -- 8: Wine, science and industrialisation -- 9: Taste -- 10: The rise of regionality -- 11: A special bouquet ... of a similar character -- Conclusion
ISBN:
9781742233444 (hbk)
Dewey class:
663.209 FIR
Local class:
663.209
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
18835
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 663.209 FIR | Available |