Wayward Tendrils Quarterly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wayward Tendrils Quarterly write by . This book was released on 2001. Wayward Tendrils Quarterly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Makers of American Wine
The Makers of American Wine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Makers of American Wine write by Thomas Pinney. This book was released on 2012-05-07. The Makers of American Wine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praise for Thomas Pinney's "A History of Wine in America" "Exhaustively researched. . ..invaluable to serious scholars of the grape. Fascinating reading." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "Revealing a sharp eye for detail and a dry, low-key wit, Pinney writes in an engaging style and with remarkable clarity." --"Wine Spectator" "Definitive. . ..an important work of historical literature." --"Wine & Spirits" "An indispensable view of. . .a remarkable time." --"Decanter"
Wayward Tendrils Quarterly
Wayward Tendrils Quarterly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wayward Tendrils Quarterly write by . This book was released on 1996. Wayward Tendrils Quarterly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Over a Barrel
Over a Barrel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Over a Barrel write by Thomas Pellechia. This book was released on 2015-02-11. Over a Barrel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Regional Category In 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper's son, started a commercial grape juice company in New York's Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was firmly established. Walter Taylor's three sons carefully guided the company through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery in the Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered. In the 1960s, the Taylor family took the company public. Ranked sixth in domestic wine production and ripe for corporate takeover, the company was sold to Coca-Cola in 1977. Three more changes of corporate ownership followed until, in 1995, this once-dynamic and important wine producer was obliterated, tearing apart the local economy and changing a way of life that had lasted for nearly a century. Drawing on archival research as well as interviews with many of the principal players, Thomas Pellechia skillfully traces the economic dynamism of the Finger Lakes wine region, the passion and ingenuity of the Taylor family, and the shortsighted corporate takeover scenario that took down a once-proud American family company. In addition to providing important lessons for business innovators, Over a Barrel is a cautionary tale for a wine region that is repeating its formative history.
A Toast to Eclipse
A Toast to Eclipse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Toast to Eclipse write by Brian McGinty. This book was released on 2012-09-10. A Toast to Eclipse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of today’s California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the first commercially successful California sparkling wine, produced by Arpad Haraszthy in the mid- to late nineteenth century. In A Toast to Eclipse, Brian McGinty offers a definitive history of the wine, exploring California’s winemaking past and two of the people who put the state’s varietal wines on the map: Arpad and his father Agoston Haraszthy, the legendary “father of California viticulture.” Inspired by his father’s dream of making California one of the world’s great viticultural regions, Arpad Haraszthy (1840–1900) pursued that goal at a time when the best grapes for making California wine had yet to be discovered, when the best locations for vineyards had not yet been established, and when the public could hardly believe that good wine could be made in a country overrun with gold miners and desperados. As a young man, Arpad spent two years in the Champagne country of northeastern France, studying the classic methods of French sparkling wine manufacture, before bringing his knowledge home to California. As McGinty shows, the story of the award-winning wine Haraszthy created is also the story of San Francisco during its heyday as the largest, most dynamic city in the American West. McGinty reveals new information about California varietals and winemaking districts, and probes the controversy about whether Agoston Haraszthy introduced the Zinfandel grape to the Golden State. Aficionados of wine and of California history will find this narrative insightful and refreshing, and all readers will gain an appreciation for Arpad Haraszthy, Eclipse, and the delicate process of making a wine sparkle.
