Like many, I also really enjoyed reading this at the beginning of my own adventures in the wine world, and I think it offers an important perspective. The writing is also vivid and engaging, something one can’t say of many wine books, and why it remains a volume I regularly recommend.
But I think at times it falls into a rather simplistic, polarized view of good/romantic = old/primitive/small/dirty vs bad = modern/big/sterile that is superficially attractive but also somewhat unhelpful. While there are lot of reasons to be cautious about change in winemaking practices, there is a middle ground: between dirty and sterile there is clean, for example; just as between the primitive and the industrial there is the meticulously artisanal. The visible effects of herbicide in the Raveneau photo, which you’d also have found chez Trollat and Gentaz, among others, is a reminder that not everything about the “old ways” is admirable or desirable.