- Title
- To Wash Away a British Stain: Class, trans-imperialism and Australian wine imaginary
- Creator
- McIntyre, Julie; Pierre, Mikaël; Germov, John
- Relation
- ARC.LP140100146 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP140100146
- Relation
- Wine, Terroir and Utopia: Making New Worlds p. 42-57
- Relation
- Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429492471
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Australia’s emergence in the nineteenth century as a New World wine country is the result of a British imaginary to make antipodean colonies in suitable climate zones into new sources of wine for domestic and export trade. In global trade, the Australian wine industry burgeoned as part of the nineteenth century dichotomy of Old World versus New World winemaking practices and business structures. This binary arose as a result of the disruption of traditions of production and trade caused by devastation from pest (phylloxera) and disease (powdery mildew) outbreaks in Europe. The world of global wine trade then, as now, was an economic and discursive space in which the Australian wine industry exists, but is not entirely encompassed. Wine industries are conglomerations of businesses in competition with each other within domestic and export markets. Industry histories therefore require statistical data to quantify and explain positive and negative patterns in profit growth and market share. For this reason the qualitative concepts of terroir and utopia are not useful frames for viewing the New World (or settler society) Australian wine industry of the nineteenth century, but they do provide valuable insights into the class-based nature of the Australian wine imaginary.
- Subject
- wine making; terroir; utopias; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442218
- Identifier
- uon:41628
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138588141
- Language
- eng
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