La vid y el vino en el Cono Sur de América Argentina y Chile (1545-2019). Aspectos políticos, económicos, sociales, culturales y enológicos. Mendoza, 2019

Abstract

The second edition of the work La vid y el vino en el Cono Sur de América Argentina y Chile (1545-2019). Los aspectos políticos, económicos, sociales, culturales y enológicos (Mendoza, 2019) of the Chilean historian Pablo Lacoste, is an essay of the highest level that is configured as an indisputable reference in the socioeconomic history of the vine and wine in the Southern Cone. Of enjoyable reading, the work is structured in four chapters and a conclusion, which starts from the colonial history to reach the same 2019, examining in detail the different dynamics of the viticulture of the Spanish colonial Southern Cone and, later, Argentine and Chilean. The book shows an immense volume of well-synthesized data and research, which allows us to move with ease from the material culture of winemaking, to the wine tastes of liberators such as San Martín and O'Higgins, the industrial development of companies both Argentine and Chilean, the emergence of tourist celebrations around wine, and the incipient return to the wine identity, which closes the book perfectly when joining colonial viticulture and its most current attempt at recovery.