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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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Max Maguire, a twenty-nine-year-old female detective with the New York Police Department, flies to France to attend the wedding of her friend, Chloe Marceau, at a grand estate east of Paris in the Champagne region. There Max meets an older man, the urbane Olivier Chaumont, and experiences a fairy-tale evening. But when Chloe's widowed aunt, the beautiful and successful Lea de Saint-Pern, is found murdered, Max and Olivier are snapped back into their...
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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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The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious artifacts, two bottles of wine: a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and a 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay. These are the wines that won at the now-famous Paris Tasting in 1976, where a panel of top French wine experts compared some of France's most famous wines with a new generation of California wines. Little did they know the wine industry would be...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
©2013]
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1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy of France through the course of a full year, and delves into the cultural and creative process of making wine, as well as its deep ties to the land.
10) Napa
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1990
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xiii, 529 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
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[2017]
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323 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the geography, culture, and history of wine that identifies the significance of this simple beverage throughout human history and today."--Amazon.com.
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"On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks....
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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xxvi, 308 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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English
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Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region.
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University of California Press
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2007.
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xvi, 572 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground down to the very seashore, they concluded that "in all the world the like abundance is not to be found." Thus, from the very beginning the promise of America...
15) Mondovino
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distributed exclusively by THINKFilm
Pub. Date
c2005
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Letterbox.
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1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions. Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter travels to France, California, Italy and New York, speaking with winemakers both large and small. The film offers a look at how business concerns and the homogenization of tastes around the world are changing the way wine is being made. Nossiter's primary focus is on American vintners and their new degree of worldwide acceptance as well...
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Gotham Books
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c2007
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452 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Set in California's Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, this is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corp.'s 21st-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, journalist Julia Flynn brings to life both the place and the people. The feuds are as spectacular as the business triumphs. Cesare's sons,...
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Carneros Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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1st ed.
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228 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.
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English
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"A compilation of the tongue-in-cheek newsletters that were sent to our friends during the period from 1991 to 1997. Our initial goal was to keep everyone abreast of our grape-growing experiences that started with a backyard vineyard in Long Beach, California, and eventually became Clos Pepe Vineyards and Estate Wines, in the Santa Rita Hills."--Prelim.
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