Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer (Author)
University of California Press
Physical Details: 342
Language: English
Wineries were established almost immediately after the colonization of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand as part of a civilizing mission: tidy vines, heavy with fruit, were symbolic of Britain’s subordination of foreign lands. Economically and culturally, nineteenth-century settler winemakers saw the British market as paramount. However, British drinkers were apathetic towards what they pejoratively called "colonial wine." The tables only began to turn after the First World War, when colonial wines were marketed as cheap and patriotic and started to find their niche among middle- and working-class British drinkers. This trend, combined with social and cultural shifts after the Second World War, laid the foundation for the New World revolution in the 1980s, making Britain into a confirmed country of wine-drinkers and a massive market for New World wines. These New World producers may have only received critical acclaim in the late twentieth century, but Imperial Wine shows that they had spent centuries wooing, and indeed manufacturing, a British market for inexpensive colonial wines. This book is sure to satisfy any curious reader who savors the complex stories behind this commodity chain.
...MoreReview Julie McIntyre (2024) Review of "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World". Agricultural History (pp. 270-276).
Review Deborah Valenze (2023) Review of "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 646-647).
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