Côte des Bar en Champagne (EN)
A Land and Its People
- Author Claudine Wolikow, Serge Wolikow
- Binding Paperback with flaps
- Size 25 x 28 cm
- Pages 232
- Illustrations 190
- Language English
- Year 2022
- ISBN 9788836652877
- Price € 35,00 € 33,25
Abstract
Readers will devour this book as if it were a novel, given how much its content and the story it deals with have in common with the canons of this genre. From the history of winegrowing Champagne to that of Champagne wine, beginning in the 18th century, through the story of the winegrowers who have shaped and continue to shape this land, without forgetting the events of the long and difficult – but victorious! – struggles that permitted the Côte des Bar to become one of Champagne’s largest wine regions: it’s all here.
This work also represents a formidable tribute to the still-poorly-known history of this region, to its past and present dynamism, to the singularity of the efforts of its winegrowers who, personally and through their vineyards, cooperatives and brands, have produced the grapes whose virtues give a significant contribution to champagne’s renown. Finally, this book is a tribute to the region’s commitment to protecting and promoting the local territory that, through events and initiatives like the ‘Routes du Champagne en Fête’, each year encourages tens of thousands of people to discover and explore its diverse and picturesque valleys.
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Presentation and Introduction
The Côte des Bar in Champagne. Terroir and Men
I. The Vineyard of Southern Champagne.
The First Expansion, 1710–1850
Chapter 1
From Southern Champagne to the Côte des Bar[s], Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 2
From an Eclectic Production to the Champagne Option, Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 3
Demarcation of the Champagne Winegrowing Region, or the ‘Champagne Nightmare’.
First Governmental and Parliamentary Phase, 1905–1911
II. A Century of Difficulties, 1850–1950
Chapter 4
1911: The Turning Point. The Great Fear of Insurrection in Champagne
Chapter 5
Protection of Designations of Origin and the Champenois Exemption, 1911–1919
Chapter 6
For Aube in Champagne! Judicial Marathon and Reinstatement, 1920–1927
Chapter 7
Heroic Times, 1927–1945. Resisting Decline
III. Renewal, Growth and Development
Chapter 8
The Revival Begins, 1945–1970
Chapter 9
Growth and Rebirth: From the 1970s to the 2000s
Chapter 10
The Challenges of the New Millennium
IV. Vineyard Actors and Contemporary Issues
Chapter 11
Protagonists of the Wine Region’s Renewal
Chapter 12
Cooperation in the Côte des Bar. A History of Intersections
Chapter 13
The Winegrowers’ Unionism: Defence and Promotion
Chapter 14
Celebrating Oenotourism
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix
Valleys and Winegrowers of the Côte des Bar
Related volumes
Côte des Bar en Champagne (FR)
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