Book launch «Landlords, vintmasters and day labourers»

Book launch «Landlords, vintmasters and day labourers»

What lines of continuity and upheavals were there in Graubünden viticulture? The book tells of episcopal wine and former monasteries, of stumbling, bailiffs and fiefdoms. In the early modern period, the Graubünden vineyards from the Chur Rhine Valley to the Valtellina also formed an important economic resource for secular landlords and became part of the culture of representation. Towards the end of the 18th century, economic societies increasingly took on practical questions, which favoured the emergence of a middle class engaged in viticulture. On the basis of diaries, letters and other sources, the work steps in the traditional wine year can be reconstructed in detail. Readers also gain insight into the everyday life of vine masters and day labourers in one of the most labour-intensive branches of agriculture. Popular myths are countered with well-founded source work, so that the essential discourses of the time become comprehensible and central building blocks of Graubünden's winegrowing history from the 8th to the 19th and early 20th centuries are available.

Greetings by Cordula Seger, Head of ikg and Reto Weiss, State Archivist
Short lectures by Christian Obrecht, winemaker, and Martín Camenisch, author

with aperitif