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Bordeaux/Burgundy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Pitte, a specialist in wine geographies, relates a long and fierce oenophile war in this charming history. Although Bordeaux wine has been an engine of innovation in the world of viticulture--British and Dutch merchants began marketing it in the late seventeenth century, and the Bordeaux bottle, whose familiar profile was created in the nineteenth century, became an international standard--Burgundy long dominated the tastes of Parisian ...
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