American Vintage The Rise of American Wine

Name: American Vintage The Rise of American Wine
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ISBN: 9780393325164

ISBN-10: 0393325164

ISBN-13: 9780393325164

Edition: 2005

Authors: Paul Lukacs

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Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards. How did a country with no winemaking traditions of its own suddenly become a world leader? Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from seventeenth-century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive, nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondavis and Gallos, the powerful first families of American wine…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 418
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.792

Paul Lukacs is the wine columnist for the "Washington Times" & chair of the English Department at Loyola College. He teaches wine appreciation classes & is a consultant for restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.