Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the
professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of
terroir, and its transnational deployment in China, Japan, South Korea,
and New Zealand. It demystifies the terroir ideology by providing a
unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept.
While the Burgundian model of terroir has gone global by acquiring
UNESCO world heritage status, its very legitimacy is now being
challenged amongst the vineyards where it first took root.