The economic and cultural globalization of wine in recent decades has made wine a newly attractive topic for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, joining the traditional research areas in grape and wine geography and science. Anglo-Saxon (as the French say) histories of wine are few compared to those produced in France and other European countries with long histories of cultivating wine grapes (Vitis vinifera). Even so, since the cultural turn a generation ago, some Anglophone historians have produced political and business histories, regional and environmental histories, and histories of institutions connected with wine. My own publications on wine growing and cultural imagining in colonial New South Wales argued that British imperial ambitions to create a wine industry arose from social and cultural aspirations to “civilize” colonized peoples and places, as well as from economic visions for colonization. Hence my enthusiasm for reading this suite of new books by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Stephen Bittner, and Owen White on wine, imperialism, and colonization in Europe, Africa, and Oceania.