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January 8, 2019 by Gary Price

World’s Greatest Wine Library’ at UC Davis Continues to Grow

January 8, 2019 by Gary Price

From UC Davis:

2019-01-08_16-29-15When Hugh Johnson, author of the ground-breaking World Atlas of Wine, decided to donate his archive of nearly 60 years of wine-book writing to the UC Davis Library in 2016, he explained that he had chosen UC Davis because, “It’s simply the greatest wine library in the world.”

Over the past two years, Johnson’s gift and his ongoing support have helped launch a whole new direction of growth for the library’s wine collection: building the world’s leading collection on wine writers. The most recent acquisition to the wine collections, the Wine Institute’s organizational archives, complements that direction. The institute was co-founded by writer Leon David Adams, whose papers are also at the library, and the archives include speeches and books by wine writers. Also, today a new wine writer collection fellow begins a two-year appointment at the library.

Shortly after giving his own papers to the library, Johnson introduced University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship MacKenzie Smith to fellow British wine writer Jancis Robinson. It was fortuitous timing; Robinson was about to move house and was, as she put it, “surprised [and] delighted to think that there was an alternative to simply throwing out 40 years’ worth of papers.”

With the papers of two of the most influential wine writers alive today, a new collection was born.

“No other library in the world has focused on collecting the work of wine writers,” said Smith. “We already had the papers of several important American wine writers, including journalist Leon Adams and writer and wine judge Roy Brady. When we acquired Hugh’s and Jancis’ papers, we saw an opportunity to create a unique collection that would illuminate the history of wine through a new lens.”

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Along with new additions to Johnson’s and Robinson’s archives, the library has recently acquired the papers of California-based wine writers Charles Sullivan (2017), Bob Thompson (2017), and John Haeger (2018).

Other unique materials added to the library’s broader wine collection in 2018 include:

  • vintage wine catalogs from famed beverage distributor Sherry-Lehmann, from which the library has extracted wine pricing data for teaching and research;
  • charity wine auction catalogs, posters and recordings; and
  • nearly 1,300 original artworks used on French wine labels in the 1920s-1960s.

These materials are now part of a world-class collection known for its breadth. The library boasts 30,000 wine books in more than 50 languages, as well as an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and materials in every medium, from wine labels to videos. Items include:

  • a 1549 edition of Devis sur la vigne, vin et vendages, believed to contain the first written reference to terroir
  • the papers of renowned California winemakers Robert Mondavi and Martin Ray
  • the work of scientists such as the late UC Davis professor Maynard Amerine, who used climate data to characterize the best growing regions for specific wine grapes and launched the field of wine sensory science.

Learn More, Read the Complete Article

See Also: An Exciting Day for Our Wine Collections (via UC Davis Library)
January 7, 2018

See Also: Viticulture and Enology Finding Aids (via UC Davis Library)

Filed under: Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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