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About Wine Wars II
Review The ten-year update to Wine Wars - Wine Wars II: The Global Battle for the Soul of Wine is now available. If it sounds like it has the razzmatazz of Star Wars, it does, and is all the better for it. To my mind the really interesting point of the excellent update lies in the subtitle – who will win the Global battle for the soul of wine? Mike is a terrific storyteller and his historical accounts of how wine developed in countries from the US and New Zealand to Georgia and China give excellent contextual overviews, as does his look at the UK as the birthplace of the global consumer wine market, and the ability of retailers and brand owners to understand consumers and tailor their products to their interests. While the same forces are at play ten years after publication of the first Wine Wars, Mike sees the power of wine brands and the pressure of commodification as even stronger than before. In this edition he introduces the idea of wine’s triple crises - environmental crisis, economic crisis, and identity crisis. How we respond to these may well determine what Mike will be writing about ten years from now if he gives us Wine Wars III. Each of the five sections of Wine Wars II is followed by instructive tasting suggestions on themes relevant to what has just been read – including a Globalisation Tasting, Blind Brand Tasting, and Terroirist Tasting. This touch highlights a key strength of the book: its’ appeal beyond the wine trade to the general reader – especially those who may often feel intimated by wine, or by economics, or by both together as wine economics. They have nothing to worry about here. It’s a treat. ― Harpers Wine & Spirit Veseth weaves an intriguing tale of history, politics, philosophy, personal observations, trade, and economics in one thin albeit entertaining volume…. Veseth’s intriguing book and his ‘grape expectations’ have therefore provided some important insights and research about the wine wars, and the future of wine, without leaving any sediment at the bottom of your empty glass. ― Washington Examiner A totally enjoyable read, whether you sip it along with a sparkling, red, white, rosé, or fortified wine. ― MyWinePal 10 years ago, when I first read Wine Wars, I was excited to see finally someone wrote about the business aspect of wine. As a wine producer in China who was new to the industry (and the industry was also very new in China), the book gave me a global perspective to look at my local market. With the updated information in this edition, it would be refreshing for someone who wants to see how the industry has and has not changed. -- Judy Chan, CEO of Grace Vineyard China No one makes the powerful economic forces behind a bottle of wine more fascinating than Mike Veseth. Yet his easy-going, down-to-earth approach to these complex topics also brims with entertaining stories and humor – who else would analyze the appeal of wine brands named Secret Squirrel or Tussock Jumper? This new, 10-years-later, version two of his classic Wine Wars is filled with pithy insights about the world of vino today, such as ‘identity trumps authenticity.’ If you want to understand the future of wine, this book is a must read. It will convince you that climate change, economic risk, and stronger-than-ever global wine brands threaten the soul of wine itself. Are we headed for a dark age? Spoiler alert: Wine Wars II ends on a slightly optimistic note, in Portugal. -- Elin McCoy, author of The Emperor of Wine, global wine critic for Bloomberg News and U.S. Editor of The Wine Conversation podcast What a timely book for business leaders and their advisers! While the book’s context is the wine and wine grape growing industries, the challenges and opportunities pinpointed and deftly parsed easily apply to so many industries and brands. Globalization, climate change, the economic challenges of labor, supply chain, brand-building and brand equity preservation in a digital world—Mike Veseth’s synthesis of their p
