| Title | El Vino en la Historia de Chile y el Mundo |
| Author | Rodrigo Alvarado Moore |
| Publisher | Origo Ediciones |
| Date | 2003 |
| ISBN | 978-9568077129 |
| Pages | 206 |
| Title | Chilean Wine: The Heritage |
| Publisher | Board and Bench Publishing |
| Date | 2005 |
| ISBN | 978-1891267802 |
Most of the book is about the story of wine in general written for a local audience (Chile). Of particular interest are the sections about Chile in the comtemporary era (1850-1950) (p. 116-133) and, the last chapter (149-172), Chilean Vitiviniculture, for the period 1950-2004, complemented with a winery listing.
About the Author
Rodrigo Alvarado Moore (1938-2010) is a Chilean agrónomo-enólogo who studied at the Universidad Católica de Chile where he would later also teach as profesor de Vitivinicultura. He worked for several associations and corporations (e.g. Asociación Nacional de Viticultores, Corporación Vitivinícola de Chile), commericial enterprises (Seagram Internationa, Enoteca Chile, Viña Errázuriz, and José Cánepa), and wrote several books. Socio Honorario of the ANIAE (Associación Nacional de Ingenieros Agrónomos).
Alvarado’s articles are bundled in several books.
- Sinopsis de la vitivinicultura chilena – 1967
- Chile, tierra del vino – 1985
- El mundo del vino. Crónicas de un Enólogo – 1997
- Los caminos del vino (más crónicas de un enólogo) y cuatro cuentos enológicos, 1999
- El vino en la historia de Chile y el mundo, 2003
- Chilean wine, the heritage. 2005
- El vino por dentro (2005)
- A propósito del vino (2006)
- El vino de Chile : una historia ilustrada (2017)
About the Book
Most of the book is about the story of wine from a, where appropriate Chilean perspective.
- Origins of Wine
- The Old World
- The Middle Ages
- Modern Times (wine in the new territories)
- Contemporary Era in the Old World
- Contemporary Era in the New World
- Chile: Prestige Wineries; Developments; Négociants; Taxes
- Chilean Viticulture
- Stagnation period (1950-1980)
- Wine Boom (1980-2004): Foreign influence, discovery of carmenère; great fine wines; tourism
- Appendix
- Chile’s vitivinicultural societies
- Chile’s vitivinicultural regions
- Vitivinicultural DO’s
- Major wineries
- Wine production and consumption
The wine regions of Chile and California are both located between 30º and 38.15º latitude and chilled by a cold ocean current. Compare Malleca/Napa and Casablanca/Santa Barbara, as illustrated
Read Online
You can “borrow” a copy from the Internet Archive (archive.org)
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