California’s Napa Valley: One Hundred Sixty Years of Wine Making
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This is the first comprehensive history of the wine industry in Napa Valley, the world’s greatest wine-growing region. It includes the earliest settlersYankees, German, French, and Italian immigrants, and their efforts to make and market wines, describes the phylloxera infestation which nearly wiped out the vineyards in the late 1800s, the gradual development of fine quality wines which won international prizes. Prohibition and the Depression strongly affected… More >>
California’s Napa Valley: One Hundred Sixty Years of Wine Making
This is not a splashy picture book, but a thorough and highly informative history of wine making in the Napa Valley, from the earliest German, French and Italian vintners to the present. The book gives a history of the development of varietal wines in the prime wine region of America, or perhaps in the world. It is particularly interesting for its treatment of the Prohibition era, when wine makers resorted to astonishing measures to stay solvent. Handsome hardcover volume, very well designed, with excellent black and white illustrations.
Rating: 5 / 5
This one of the most entertaining books I’ve read about the region. Mr. Heintz paints a very colorful picture while introducing you to the more interesting facts concerning the areas history.
Rating: 5 / 5