Research Catalog

Title

Burgundy : the country, the wines, the people / Eunice Fried ; photograhs by Susan Oristaglio and Eunice Fried.

Author

Fried, Eunice, 1933-

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, c1986.

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Details

Description

x, 205 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This is a feast of a book -- for the wine lover, the gastronome, the Burgundy and travel lover, for the Francophile. While it focuses on the wines that made Burgundy so famous, it is also about the people and their marvelous old traditions and history. Eunice Fried writes warmly and colorfully of selected people, who bring her knowledge alive. Colorful Burgundians abound on these pages -- patrician and peasant alike: Aubert de VIllaine, Romanée-Conti; Lalou Bize-Leroy, the famous lady négociant; 70-year-old André Mussy, whose wine experience stretches back over 50 years, are only a few. This is a tapestry of wines, winemakers, history; a rich read, a personal view by one of America's foremost wine writers. It is a book for anyone who has ever raised a glass with appreciation and pleasure. If anything can heighten the pleasure of a precious bottle, this book can. -- From publisher's description.

Subjects

• Burgundy (France) > Description and travel
• Burgundy (France) > Social life and customs
• Wine and wine making > France > Burgundy
• Country life > France > Burgundy

Note

• "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rebecca Wasserman -- From birth to Burgundy -- The barn -- a recreation -- Country living -- Of oak trees and barrels -- Building the brokerage -- Monks and monasteries -- Cîteaux -- From revolution to the eve of evolution -- Estate bottling -- Le Serbet grows -- The Lafarges: tradition and the vineyards -- Vendange -- Winemaking in Volnay -- Changes -- Visitors to the farm -- Vieux Moulin -- Innovation and youth -- Aubert de Villaine -- Lalou Bize-Leroy -- André Mussy: an old winemaker's tale -- The importer and the wine merchant -- Continuity.

ISBN

0060390492 :

LCCN

^^^85045193^

OCLC

• 13002977
• SCSB-11232502

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library