Hivemind Request

[snurri]

I am unexpectedly in need of research materials relating to life on a vineyard between, say, 1650-1850. My own searches have come up with little in general, and nothing specific to the subject. (I HAZ MLS BUT I R KNOT VERA SMRT.) Any suggestions? Even a chapter would help.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

[justinhowe.livejournal.com]

Does country matter?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Kinda sorta? My setting is analogous to the Rhine Valley, so anything about that region would be ideal. But I'm primarily interested in the technologies and specific serf/peasant labor types and day-to-day activities of that (admittedly overlong) period.

[justinhowe.livejournal.com]

Okay -
This site has section on Vinyard culture: http://www.rollintl.com/roll/rhine.htm

This site has a couple paragraphs on 17th/18th century winemaking: http://www.anyheart.org/wine/history.html

Wiki-page on german Wine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_wine

Something from this book, this one, maybe.

It'd be the same period as Romanticism, Goethe, and ETA Hoffman (who liked the vino quite a bit).

Actually all this stuff probably came up in your own Googling.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Some new ones there; thanks much!