Sources & bibliography

The scholarly works, archives and datasets Vinistory articles are built on — from Roger Dion to the University of Adelaide wine database.

The reference works behind this site. Individual articles cite what they use; this page is the standing bibliography.

Foundations

• Roger Dion, Histoire de la vigne et du vin en France, des origines au XIXe siècle, 1959; reissued CNRS Éditions, 2010. The foundation of French wine historiography.
• Marcel Lachiver, Vins, vignes et vignerons. Histoire du vignoble français, Fayard, 1988.
• Henri Enjalbert, "Comment naissent les grands crus", Annales, 1953.

Medieval Bordeaux & the Anglo-Gascon trade

• Sandrine Lavaud, Bordeaux et le vin au Moyen Âge : essor d'une civilisation, Éditions Sud-Ouest, 2003; and "Vignobles et vins d'Aquitaine au Moyen Âge", Territoires du vin n°5, 2013 (open access, CC BY 4.0).
• Yves Renouard, "Le grand commerce des vins de Gascogne au Moyen Âge", Revue historique, 1959; "Bordeaux sous les rois d'Angleterre", in Ch. Higounet (ed.), Histoire de Bordeaux, t. III, 1965.
• Margery K. James, Studies in the Medieval Wine Trade, Clarendon Press, 1971; "The Fluctuations of the Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade during the Fourteenth Century", Economic History Review, 1951.
• Archival series: the Grande Coutume de Bordeaux registers (from 1305) and the Exchequer King's Remembrancer accounts (The National Archives, Kew).

Early modern & the golden age

• René Pijassou, Un grand vignoble de qualité : le Médoc, Flammarion, 1980 (2 vols).
• Paul Butel, Les négociants bordelais, l'Europe et les Îles au XVIIIe siècle, 1974.
• Philippe Roudié, Vignobles et vignerons du Bordelais (1850–1980).
• On the birth of quality claret (recent scholarship in motion): J. Leary, Journal of Wine Research 36:2, 2025; and Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2025 (Boyle's claret experiments).

Crises & the modern era

• Gilbert Garrier, Le Phylloxéra : une guerre de trente ans, 1870–1900, Albin Michel, 1989.
• James Simpson, "Phylloxera, Price Volatility and Institutional Innovation in France's Domestic Wine Markets, 1870–1911", Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2004 (open access).

Datasets

• Kym Anderson & Vicente Pinilla (with A.J. Holmes), Annual Database of Global Wine Markets, 1835 to 2024, Wine Economics Research Centre, University of Adelaide (freely downloadable; the source of this site's long-run production and trade charts).