Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective

With the introduction of wine to the Cape Colony, it became associated locally with social extremes: with the material trappings of privilege and taste, on the one side, and the stark realities of human bondage, on the other. By examining the history of Cape wine, Paul Nugent offers a detailed history of how, in South Africa, race has shaped patterns of consumption. The book takes us through the Liquor Act of 1928, which restricted access along racial lines, intervention to address overproduction from the 1960s, and then latterly, in the wake of the fall of the Apartheid regime, deregulation in the 1990s and South Africa's re-entry into global markets. We see how the industry struggled to embrace Black Economic Empowerment, environmental diversity and the consumer market. This book is an essential read for those interested in the history of wine, and how it intersects with both South African and global history.

隨著葡萄酒進入開普殖民地，它在當地與社會極端相關聯：一方面與特權和品味的物質象徵相關，另一方面與人類奴役的殘酷現實相關。保羅·紐傑特通過研究開普葡萄酒的歷史，提供了一個詳細的歷史，闡明了在南非，種族如何塑造了消費模式。本書通過1928年的酒精法案，該法案按種族劃分限制了進入，介入解決1960年代的過度生產問題，然後在種族隔離政權倒台後的1990年代，以及南非重新進入全球市場後的解除管制。我們看到這個行業如何努力擁抱黑人經濟賦權、環境多樣性和消費市場。對於那些對葡萄酒的歷史以及它如何與南非和全球歷史交織在一起感興趣的人來說，這本書是必讀之作。