Offers a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry. The original research in this book celebrates and critiques the local wine industry and situates it in a complex web of Old World traditions and New World reliance on technology, science, and taste as well as global processes and local sociocultural reactions.

Reviews the Niagara wine industry, its history and regulation of production and its contemporary economic significance, the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines, the science behind the industry, and the social and cultural ramifications of Niagara's increasing reliance on grapes and wine.