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University of California Press
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English
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"Wine critic and writer Steve Heimoff, inspired by Robert Benson's Great Winemakers of California (1977), traversed the state of California to record lively and informative conversations with more than two dozen winemakers and grape growers who represent today's leaders and visionaries. While Benson's book captured a wine industry on the brink of exponential growth and recognition, Heimoff surveys a multibillion-dollar business with a global reputation...
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Until the mid-1970s, most American wine was far from fine. Instead, it was fortified and sweet, and came from grape varieties prized less for their taste than for their ability to ferment fast. Even in big cities, a bottle of domestically made Chardonnay or Merlot was hard to come by?and most Americans thought wine like that was for the wealthy anyway, not for them. Then a series of game-changing events and a group of plucky entrepreneurs transformed...
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English
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Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California's legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines and in many cases still do, turned to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919, three months after one of the greatest California grape harvests of all time, violence and chaos descended on Northern California. Federal agents spilled thousands of gallons...
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English
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A compendium for wine lovers: a prominent vintner shares a lifetime of great wines, famous friends, deep knowledge, and insider insights
Reflections of a Vintner recounts the lessons learned, relationships forged, and observations made from an insider's nearly fifty-year journey through the burgeoning wine industry in Napa Valley. From the mid-seventies, when there were less than fifty wineries, to the present, with over eight hundred, Tor Kenward...
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 2
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English
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"...the Dordogne's great pleasures--wine, romance, and intrigue--threaten Bruno's beloved village of Saint-Denis."--Jacket.
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English
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"Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow--the Veuve Clicquot--whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? Cultural historian Mazzeo brings to life the woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin. A young witness to the French Revolution and a new widow during the chaotic years of the Napoleonic Wars,...
8) Bottle shock
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Napa Valley, 1976. For connoisseur Steven Spurrier, there is no finer art than French wine. But rumors bandy about of a new California wine country that holds the future of the vine. Positive the small Napa wineries are no match for established French vintages, Spurrier challenges the Americans to a blind taste test. He finds the valley full of ambitious, and talented, novice vinters like Jim Barrett and his son Bo. He realizes his publicity stunt...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
286 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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Returning to her Virginia vineyard home after the unexpected death of her father, Lucie Montgomery is dismayed by her father's gambling debts, and discovers that someone had a lot to gain from her father's death and the sale of his winery.
11) Forever a hero
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For the youngest Carson brother, findingand fixingtrouble seems to be all in a day's work Mace Carson doesn't consider himself a hero. Back in college, he came upon a woman in trouble and intervenedbut he was just one irate Wyoming cowboy with his boots planted firmly on the side of right. Now a successful vintner, Mace is shocked to be reunited with the woman he saved. But it turns out she's in Wyoming on businessa corporate executive representing...
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Quarry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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207 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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English
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"In The Vintner's Apprentice, you get behind-the-scenes access to the wine world's real-life masters of the craft, as well as a guide to the techniques that made them so successful. Benefit from their experience selecting a site, planting a vineyard, harvesting and crushing the grapes, creating blends, and much more."--www.Amazon.com.
13) Tears of pride
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large type ed.
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357 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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362 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Winter has come to the Montgomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori have decided to make champagne, a first for the vineyard. But then Gino Tomassi, Quinn's uncle, turns up on their doorstep one afternoon, demanding help in solving the mystery of what happened to Zara Tomassi, the first wife of his grandfather, who died in a San Francisco hotel in 1923 under suspicious circumstances. And it seems there's...
15) Drunk on love
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 2 x 14 cm.
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English
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"Margot Noble bit her lip so she wouldn't scream. "I know that Uncle Stan never had parties here," she said to her brother, as calmly as she could. "But I'm suggesting that we do something different this year. Shake it up a little. It's the twenty-fifth anniversary of Noble Family Vineyards, and I think it's worthy of celebration. A party for our wine club members and other paying guests seems like a perfect way to do it." By the look on Elliot's...
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Hellmore Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
206 pages
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English
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"Slave to the Vine: Confessions of a Vagabond Cellarhand is a story of heartbreak and reinvention. By fleeing his job and hometown to work the wine harvest at a famous, remote vineyard on the Sonoma Coast, a divorced thirtysomething learns to close the door on his past and grow in the agrarian face of new challenges. In the company of wine, women, and wildlife, he thrives amid a battle of winemaking egos and mountain folk on the quest to make the...
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Publisher
Hellmore Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
174 pages
Language
English
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"Lucky Country: Confessions of a Vagabond Cellarhand is the candid story of a Californian divorcé fulfilling his dream of working a wine harvest in Australia. Nearly intercepted by customs agents on the flight in, his unbridled, down under adventures at a high-end winery in South Australia erupt like a powder keg. Alongside six other international harvest interns in a perspiration-misted Work Hard, Play Hard environment, our protagonist dodges snakes,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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When Lucie Montgomery stumbles across a skull in her vineyard--just after the tornado that almost kills her--little does she suspect the skeletons in the family closet to which the discovery will lead in Crosby's sprightly fourth Virginia wine country mystery (after 2008's The Bordeaux Betrayal). But who can blame the amateur detective for being a bit off her game, with the hurricane of headaches already buffeting Montgomery Estate Vineyard? Hot-tempered...
20) Blood vines
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"Alexandra Clarkson is having terrifying dreams filled with blood and ceremonial images. Her mother, Patsy, commits suicide after speaking with Detective Daniel Reed. Years earlier, Patsy was married to Harlan Sommer, a prominent vintner, when their infant son disappeared. The loss destroyed their marriage, causing Patsy to leave and take Alex with her. Reed is investigating the identity of a baby's remains unearthed in a Sonoma vineyard and Reed...
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