Literature of Wine: Technical literature

Parallel with this growth in books on the vineyard regions and their wines, there was a considerable body of work on viticulture and winemaking. In France at the end of the 18th century the Burgundian Béguillet and Maupin, from Paris, both wrote detailed works which were widely read.

In England, William Speechly, gardener to the Duke of Portland, wrote a Treatise on the Culture of the Vine (1790) which went into three editions. This dealt with both hothouse and open-air vines in england and discusses some of the vineyards which were then planted there and the wines they produced.