1. Terroir, institutions and improvements in European wine history: an Introduction; Silvia A. Conca Messina, Stéphane Le Bras, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro -- 2. The "Grapes Country". Portoguese viticulture from the early 19th century until the new millennium; Conceição Andrade Martins and Ana Cardoso de Matos -- 3. History of a vineyeard in Champagne: from 18th to 21th century; Serge Wolikow -- 4. The Development of Winegrowing: Winemaking and distribution of wine in the Lower Moselle (18th-20th Centuries); Thomas Schuetz -- 5. The Mountain Wine, 1800-1900: Case studies from the provinces of Sondrio and Trento; Claudio Besana and Andrea Maria Locatelli -- 6. "The Idea of Improvement": theorised vs practiced vine growing in Friuli; Andrea Cafarelli -- 7. The Development of Winegrowing and Oenology in Southern Piedmont and Oltrepò Pavese; Luciano Maffi -- 8. The improvement of the production and quality: the case of wine production in the Eastern Lombardy during the 19th and 20th Centuries (provinces of Bergamo and Brescia); Paolo Tedeschi -- 9. Viniculture in the Italy of the Mezzadria (Tuscany, Umbria, Marche); Luca Mocarelli and Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro -- 10. Viticulture and Winemaking in Abruzzo from the Unification of Italy to the Development of the Cooperation System; Dario Dell'Osa -- 11. Winegrowing in Slovenia in the 20th Century; Žarco Lazarevič.