Inside Burgundy: Côte de Nuits

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The second in a series of interactive eBooks takes wine lovers to the heart of Burgundy following the launch of Jasper Morris MW’s Inside Burgundy: Côte de Nuits.

The ground-breaking e-publishing venture by Berry Bros. & Rudd received critical acclaim with its first eBook  Inside Burgundy: Côte de Beaune but now promises to woo the reader and push the boundaries further with the latest eBook.

Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris MW was published in October 2010 by Berry Bros. & Rudd Press. It has been, and remains, a commercial and critical success. The book runs to 656 pages and has a weight of over 2 kilos. This makes it somewhat cumbersome as an on-the-spot guide to Burgundy's vineyards. The iPad's light weight and portability make the interactive eBook editions of Inside Burgundy an invaluable companion on visits to the region.



Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris MW was published in October 2010 by Berry Bros. & Rudd Press. It has been, and remains, a commercial and critical success. The book runs to 656 pages and has a weight of over 2 kilos. This makes it somewhat cumbersome as an on-the-spot guide to Burgundy's vineyards. The iPad's light weight and portability make the interactive eBook editions of Inside Burgundy an invaluable companion on visits to the region.

For Côte de Nuits, Jasper Morris has been tramping world-famous grand cru vineyards to plot an entirely new departure: five never-before-seen, interactive plans that show precisely where each wine estate has its vines.

“It was a fascinating task, working out who owned which plot. The most challenging was Richebourg where figures quoted by other authors on how holdings were split between the two parts of the vineyard, Richebourg and Veroilles, didn’t seem to add up logically. So I prowled round the vineyard and was able to discern the exact detail of each plot by the differing viticultural practices of, e.g., one member of the Gros family compared to another. Anorak stuff perhaps, but deeply satisfying,” says Jasper, a Master of Wine and Berry Bros. & Rudd’s Burgundy director, who has spent 30 years working and living in Burgundy.
Read more on Jasper's blog

 

Key features: Côte de Nuits

The new eBook allows wine lovers to go with him into the heart of Burgundy - visiting via an iPad.

  •  Côte de Nuits on the iPad is 400 pages long
  • The text is fully searchable: every mention of a vineyard or a grower can be explored
  • The superb maps of the Burgundy vineyards are interactive: they can be zoomed with one tap, and live links take you to the text on grands crus and premiers crus
  • The 130 wine estates detail the vineyards, wines, techniques and philosophies and there are descriptions and appraisals of 260 vineyards over the book’s 400 pages.
  • Videos of Jasper Morris explaining key quality factors punctuate the pages
  • Readers can highlight text and can make their own notes – invaluable for building up a personal library of cellar information and tasting notes
  • Hundreds of colour photographs show the vineyards discussed, and the producers who make the wines
  • A Glossary by Jasper Morris explains key terms at the tap of a finger


Chris Foulkes of Berry Bros. & Rudd Press adds: “The new videos take the reader into the heart of the grand crus with the author. See just how the soil differs over a ten-yard stretch: a contrast spotted centuries ago by the monks who planted the vineyards. The superb interactive maps that show just where each vineyard is, allowing readers to study contour lines and compass direction to discover just why certain plots consistently make superior wines. These innovative maps do much to make clear the complexities of Burgundy.”

App Reviews
Critics and wine lovers hailed the first volume in the Inside Burgundy series, Côte de Beaune, as among the best eBooks made for the iPad.

Stuart Dredge, The Guardian:
“When Apple launched its iBooks Author software in January 2012, the emphasis was firmly on digital textbooks, with some talk about self-publishing potential for authors. 315 year-old wine merchants weren’t mentioned much. Well, at all. Yet fast forward to 2013 and British firm Berry Bros. & Rudd (est. 1698) has released one of the more impressive ebooks created using Apple’s publishing tools: Jasper Morris’ Inside Burgundy: Côte de Beaune.”

Tamlyn Currin, Jancis Robinson.com:
"This puts all the electronic ‘e’s into Beaune Heaven. The maps are coloured, crisp and detailed, with a ‘tap to zoom’ feature that had me peering at the contour lines of Chassagne-Montrachet for a mesmerised time. I’d practically walked that vineyard by the time I left the page. "Visually, it’s a delight. The font and clarity and spacing of the layout is so crystal-clear.. .What gives the e-book a jewelled edge is the addition of the luminously beautiful photographs; Burgundy seen through the lens of an artist, glowing with colour and so vivid it looks close enough to touch."
Read the reviews about the eBook editions of 'Inside Burgundy'

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