Download or read book Sustainability and the Emergence of the Texas Wine Industry written by Kourtney G. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas wine industry dates back to the 17th century when the first grape vines were planted by Spanish missionaries (Crain & Crain, 2013). Although wine has a long history in Texas, the commercial industry was relatively dormant until recently. As of 2019, Texas is home to over 500 wineries and 350 vineyards, with over 5,000 acres bearing grapes (Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association, 2020). Given the geographic scale of Texas wine-growing region, I will focus on the two largest AVAs in this study and apply a sustainability lens (economic, environmental, and social transitions) to improve our understanding of how these "fermented landscapes" (Myles, 2020) have evolved with a primary focus on the last three decades. The Hill Country AVA in Texas meets the demands of tourists better than the High Plains AVA and is home to the majority of wine production, however the region only produces a tiny fraction of the overall grapes being used for wine production in the state. Despite the lack of vineyards, the Hill Country AVA represents the truest "wine country" in the state, in the cultural sense, wherein visitors have the chance to taste and visit the wineries where production occurs, while the High Plains AVA is more focused on winegrape growing versus winemaking. Through a mixed method approach, this research explores the geography of wine production in Texas, taking into account the environmental, economic, and social differences (the pillars of sustainability) between the predominant grape growing regions versus the leading wine producing regions. Texas carves out a unique wine identity and strengthens its place in wider wine culture. New methods and education are being used to overcome obstacles the Texas wine industry faces to produce high quality wine (Williams, 2020). This period of transition takes the Texas wine industry as a whole to the next level when compared to established wine regions like California or Oregon.

Download or read book Texas Wine Pioneers written by Gretchen Glasscock and published by Advancing Texas Wine. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years preceding the seventies, America began to awaken to locally sourced food and wine; a key turning point was The Judgement of Paris in 1976, a moment that rocked the world of wine and set it on a different course. French judges, in a blind tasting, judged two California wines superior to their French counterparts. Attitudes toward wine began to shift and adventurous people in various parts of the United States began to feel empowered to explore wine-making conditions in their own regions. As part of this cultural movement, Gretchen Glasscock, returning from the East with a degree from Columbia University and a penchant for research, upended a Texas A&M Study asserting that all Texas was a hot and humid climate suitable for growing only jug wines. She identified the region around Blue Mountain in Fort Davis as cool and crisp, like Napa or parts of France. Before planting her vineyard, Glasscock brought in renowned viticultural and enology experts to guide her in developing this new Texas agribusiness. Subsequent Judgement of Paris moments have now taken place putting premiumTexas wines at the center of a new, more diverse wine universe. This book provides new details recorded by a Texas wine pioneer, advocate, activist and entrepreneur who lived it. Her seminal research and hard fought wine legislation laid the foundation, enabling the development of a multibillion-dollar Texas wine industry.This is a tale of epic battles and larger-than-life personalities, including iconic global winemakers, titans of the wine industry, newcomers who wanted to create this groundbreaking industry and Texas legislators who either caved or fiercely fought the well-financed liquor lobby that had one goal: to kill change.It explores the future of the Texas wine industry, particularly in this present moment of a pandemic that has forced wine-tasting rooms and wine festivals to shut down. Glasscock's solution is to establish an online wine sales platform for all Texas wineries to be able to market their wine online and deliver it to a wine lover's door, in a way that will create a new prosperity for the Texas wine industry.

Download or read book Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment of Local Wine Production and Consumption in Texas Using LCA to Inspire Environmental Improvements written by Ashley Poupart and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to carry out this research I followed the 14040 standardized framework as a first step. This framework helped identify how the Texas wine industry contributes to the environmental impacts associated with the production of a 750ml bottle of wine. The LCA quantified these impacts and identified how the industry could benefit from switching from the business as usual approach by tackling the most impactful areas associated with the wine production. By modeling different scenarios, I tested the hypotheses that both organic farming techniques, and the use of lighter bottles, would reduce the impact categories. The results for the organic farming scenarios showed that restrictions on the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers lowered environmental impacts associated with eutrophication, ecotoxicity and global warming potential. Results for the lighter bottle scenario demonstrated that a reduction in the weight of the glass bottles will reduce both packaging and transport related CO2 emissions associated with the production processes of the bottle. A sensitivity analysis also determined if the study was influenced by any uncertainties.

Download or read book The History of Texas Wine written by Katherine Crain and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample the untold history of Texas’s wine industry in this book filled with fascinating stories and photos. Spanish colonists may have come to Texas to spread Christianity, but under visionary Father Fray Garcia, they stayed and raised grapes. Later immigrants brought their own burgundy tastes of home, creating a unique wine country. When a North American pest threatened European vines, it was Texan scientist T. V. Munson who helped save the industry overseas. When Prohibition loomed stateside, Frank Qualia's Val Verde Winery in Del Rio survived by selling communion wine—and it’s now the longest-operating bonded winery in the state. Today, tourists flock to Texas vineyards, and the state sells more wine every year. Join local experts Kathy and Neil Crain and sample the untold story of Texas's wine industry, a 350-year story that is still reaching its savory peak.

Download or read book Spatial temporal Cluster Analysis to Identify Emerging Agglomeration of Texas Wineries 1973 2014 written by Thomas C. Shelton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wine is of interest to geographers for a variety of reasons. To fully understand the geography of wine, one must consider many factors. For example, the geology, biology, climate, culture, economics, and politics of a particular region influence the wine produced there. In Texas, wine production dates back more than 350 years. However, only within the past few decades has the wine industry in Texas grown significantly. This paper has two goals: 1) an examination of the history of the Texas wine industry, and 2) a spatial-temporal cluster analysis to determine emerging patterns of agglomeration of wine production in Texas. Understanding the Texas wine history and identifying these patterns establishes a baseline that will be useful for future study which examines the factors driving growth and development patterns of the Texas wine industry from a geographical perspective. This study identified provides a solid baseline for further research into the Texas wine industry. It establishes the historical context of the industry and identifies statistically significant emerging agglomeration of wineries in Texas. This information can be used as the basis to study why this agglomeration is occurring.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry written by Marco-Lajara, Bartolomé and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wine industry, sustainability is an extremely important issue for two main reasons: Firstly, the industry faces serious threats as a consequence of climate change, as well as water and energy scarcity. Secondly, proper sustainable management of wineries can mean obtaining a competitive advantage by allowing them to increase market share and organizational innovation processes. In this sense, previous work has shown that customers tend to select wines that have been developed following sustainable practices, despite not knowing what this means in practice. The Handbook of Research on Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry serves as a guide for study, reflection, and critique to understand sustainability in the wine industry in its triple aspect (economic, social, and environmental). The book sheds light on the new trends and challenges of the wine industry, making it a must-read for academicians and managers who want to deepen their knowledge of the wine industry as well as its link with sustainability. Covering key topics such as wine tourism, green innovation, and consumer behavior, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Download or read book Sustainable Development in the Wine Industry written by Jeremy Galbreath and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a robust stream of research studying the external and internal drivers of cleaner production practices, yet little of this research has combined an examination of the natural environment and the demography of human agents. Building on natural resource dependence theory (NRDT), this study establishes that wine firms are highly dependent on nature (temperature, rainfall) and face uncertainties surrounding access to eco-system services, which act as a driver of cleaner production practices. Further, because women leaders are more likely than their male counterparts to demonstrate sensitivity towards and respect for the natural environment and sustainable development, a hypothesis is put forth that gender-diverse leadership shapes (moderates) the main effects relationships. By studying a sample of 1886 wine firms operating in Australia over the years 2004-2018, these relationships are tested and the hypotheses confirmed. The results are discussed, with implications for theory, empirical research, practice and policy. Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2353.

Download or read book Handbook of Innovation for Sustainable Tourism written by Booyens, Irma and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering conceptual, empirical and policy contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this comprehensive Handbook investigates a broad range of innovations and new approaches to tourism aimed at enhancing sustainability.

Download or read book A History of Wine in America Volume 1 written by Thomas Pinney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground down to the very seashore, they concluded that "in all the world the like abundance is not to be found." Thus, from the very beginning the promise of America was, in part, the alluring promise of wine. How that promise was repeatedly baffled, how its realization was gradually begun, and how at last it has been triumphantly fulfilled is the story told in this book. It is a story that touches on nearly every section of the United States and includes the whole range of American society from the founders to the latest immigrants. Germans in Pennsylvania, Swiss in Georgia, Minorcans in Florida, Italians in Arkansas, French in Kansas, Chinese in California—all contributed to the domestication of Bacchus in the New World. So too did innumerable individuals, institutions, and organizations. Prominent politicians, obscure farmers, eager amateurs, sober scientists: these and all the other kinds and conditions of American men and women figure in the story. The history of wine in America is, in many ways, the history of American origins and of American enterprise in microcosm. While much of that history has been lost to sight, especially after Prohibition, the recovery of the record has been the goal of many investigators over the years, and the results are here brought together for the first time. In print in its entirety for the first time, A History of Wine in America is the most comprehensive account of winemaking in the United States, from the Norse discovery of native grapes in 1001 A.D., through Prohibition, and up to the present expansion of winemaking in every state.

Download or read book Social Cultural and Economic Impacts of Wine in New Zealand written by Peter J. Howland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand’s wine came to the world’s attention in the late 1980’s with its production of some of the best quality sauvignon blancs. Since then the industry has grown significantly and has increasingly gained an international reputation as a producer of quality, boutique wines. This volume provides an innovative, multi-disciplinary and critical review of wine production and consumption focusing specifically on the fascinating wine industry of New Zealand. It considers the history, production, aesthetics, consumption and role of place (identity) from multi-disciplinary perspectives to offer insight into the impacts of wine production and consumption. By linking the study of wine to broadly constructed social, cultural, historical and transnational processes the book contributes to contemporary debates on the “life of commodities”, “social class” and “place and people”. Throughout comparisons are made to other internationally recognized wine regions such as Bordeaux and Burgundy. This title furthers the understanding of the social/cultural context of wine production and consumption in this region and will be valuable reading to students, researchers and academics interested in gastronomy, wine studies, tourism and hospitality.

Download or read book Forked Tendrils written by Eric D. Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crafting Sustainable Wine Businesses Concepts and Cases written by Armand Gilinsky, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. In this book, four case studies reveal that sustainability in the wine industry it is tied tightly to long-term profitability.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture written by Steve Charters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity. The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture brings together a newly comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of contemporary research and thinking on how wine fits into the cultural frameworks of production, intermediation and consumption. Bringing together many leading researchers engaged in studying these phenomena, it explores the different ways in which wine is constructed as a social artefact and how its representation and use acquire symbolic meaning. Wine can be analysed in different ways by varying disciplines involved in exploring wine and culture (anthropology, economics and business, geography, history and sociology, and as text). The Handbook uses these as lenses to consider how producers, intermediaries and consumers use and create cultural significance. Specifically, the work addresses the following: how wine relates to place, belief systems and accompanying rituals; how it may be used as a marker of the identity and mechanisms of civilising processes (often in conjunction with food and the arts); how its framing intersects with science and nature; the ideologies and power relations which arise around all these activities; and the relation of this to wine markets and public institutions. This is essential reading for researchers and students in education for the wine industry and in the humanities and social sciences engaged in understanding patterns of human ingenuity and interaction, such as sociology, anthropology, economics, health, geography, business, tourism, cultural studies, food studies and history.

Download or read book The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights written by Joshua C. Gellers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design in South Asia, Gellers presents a comprehensive response to this important question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant. Scholars, practitioners, and students of law, political science, and sociology interested in understanding how institutions cope with complex problems like environmental degradation and human rights violations will find this book to be essential reading.

Download or read book True to Our Roots written by Paul Dolan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True to Our Roots sets forth the simple but powerful management principles that enabled Fetzer Vineyards under Paul Dolan to become one of America’s biggest and best-known wineries even as it was turning into a model for sustainable businesses everywhere. Today, Dolan and Fetzer are leading the California wine industry toward profound change in how wineries and grape growers preserve their environment, strengthen their communities, and enrich the lives of their employees, without sacrificing the bottom line. This is truly a management revolution in one of the most globalized, competitive industries on Earth. The principles Dolan discovered and developed at Fetzer can be applied to any business and by leaders at every level: A business is part of a much larger system A company’s culture is determined by the context created for it The soul of a company is found in the hearts of its people The future can’t be predicted, but it can be created There is a way to make an idea’s time come Filled with personal anecdotes and practical wisdom, this book offers inspiration and guidance to business managers who see the compelling need to build and grow healthy, sustainable organizations. For all readers, True to Our Roots provides both a fascinating glimpse into the California wine industry and heartening proof that business can do well by doing good.

Download or read book Industrial Cluster Theory as an Economic Development Tool written by Angie Michelle Evans and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Toward a Sustainable Wine Industry written by Luann Preston-Wilsey and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Toward a Sustainable Wine Industry: Green Enology in Practice takes a broad look at the emerging trend of using sustainable wine production methods and business practices. It covers a multitude of aspects of the sustainable wine industry, including production methods, recycling efforts, customer