Vitiblog

Source : Vinography

Review by Tim Patterson.

This is a very useful, though not very exciting book. No rhapsodies about mind-bending encounters with memorable wines, no personality portraits of wild and crazy winemakers, no dirt on the owners of winedom's most precious pieces of dirt.

But dirt, yes--the kind geographers start from and worry over. Brian Sommers teaches geography at Central Connecticut State University, including a course on the geography of wine, a subject that turns out to include a vast range of vinous things. Early on, he explains to non-geographers--that would be nearly all of us--that the geography of wine is more than a collection of wine region maps, but rather the application of four broad traditions of geographical study to the particularities and peculiarities of wine: environmental / physical explorations of soil, climate, and so on; "man-land" or human ecology approaches, focusing on the economic / agricultural / cultural adaptations of people to places; the regional studies tradition that tries to puzzle out why a place works the way it does; and spatial analysis, encompassing everything from Geographical Information Systems technology to modeling the physical location of wine markets [..]

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