Postmodern winemaking: rethinking the modern science of an ancient craft

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1. The solution problem -- 2. Creating the conditions for graceful aging -- 3. Building structure: the basic tool kit -- 4. The seven functions of oak -- 5. Vineyard enology: the power of showing up -- 6. The vicinal diphenol cascade: red wine's defining reaction -- 7. Redoc redux: measuring wine's oxygen uptake capacity -- 8. Speculations on minerality -- 9. Winemaking at high pH -- 10. Integrated brettanomyces management -- 11. Harmony and astringency: nice and rough -- 12. Winemaking's lunatic heroes -- 13. Gideon Beinstock's Mountain Magic: handling extreme terroir -- 14. Randall Graham: California dreamer in search of the miraculous -- 15. Bob Wample: thinking like a grape -- 16. Pressing matters: a postmodern tale -- 17. Some like it hot -- 18. The new filtrations: winemaking's power tools -- 19. Flash dâetente: winemaking game changer -- 20. Spoofulated or artisanal? -- 21. Science and byodynamics: the limits of rationalism -- 22. Natural wine nonsense -- 23. Yeast inoculation: threat or menace? -- 24. New world identity and judging reform -- 25. Liquid music: resonance in wine -- Appendices.;FOOD & BEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY. In "Postmodern Winemaking," Clark Smith shares the extensive knowledge he has accumulated in engaging, humorous, and erudite essays that convey a new vision of the winemaker's craft--one that credits the crucial roles played by both science and art in the winemaking process. Smith, a leading innovator in red wine production techniques, explains how traditional enological education has led many winemakers astray--enabling them to create competent, consistent wines while putting exceptional wines of structure and mystery beyond their grasp. Great wines, he claims, demand a personal and creative engagement with many elements of the process. His lively exploration of the facets of postmodern winemaking, together with profiles of some of its practitioners, is both entertaining and enlightening.