Aœ History Of Wine In America

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520941489

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A History of Wine in America, Volume 2 by Thomas Pinney Pdf

A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition. Engagingly written, exhaustively researched, and rich in detail, this book describes how Prohibition devastated the wine industry, the conditions of renewal after Repeal, the various New Deal measures that affected wine, and the early markets and methods. Thomas Pinney goes on to examine the effects of World War II and how the troubled postwar years led to the great wine boom of the late 1960s, the spread of winegrowing to almost every state, and its continued expansion to the present day. The history of wine in America is, in many ways, the history of America and of American enterprise in microcosm. Pinney's sweeping narrative comprises a lively cast of characters that includes politicians, bootleggers, entrepreneurs, growers, scientists, and visionaries. Pinney relates the development of winemaking in states such as New York and Ohio; its extension to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and other states; and its notable successes in California, Washington, and Oregon. He is the first to tell the complete and connected story of the rebirth of the wine industry in California, now one of the most successful winemaking regions in the world.

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0520062248

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A History of Wine in America from the Beginnings to Prohibition by Thomas Pinney Pdf

Tells the story of vitaculture and winemaking in America and discusses the individuals, organizations and institutions associated with the enterprise

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520934580

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A History of Wine in America, Volume 1 by Thomas Pinney Pdf

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 was, in part, the alluring promise of wine. How that promise was repeatedly baffled, how its realization was gradually begun, and how at last it has been triumphantly fulfilled is the story told in this book. It is a story that touches on nearly every section of the United States and includes the whole range of American society from the founders to the latest immigrants. Germans in Pennsylvania, Swiss in Georgia, Minorcans in Florida, Italians in Arkansas, French in Kansas, Chinese in California—all contributed to the domestication of Bacchus in the New World. So too did innumerable individuals, institutions, and organizations. Prominent politicians, obscure farmers, eager amateurs, sober scientists: these and all the other kinds and conditions of American men and women figure in the story. The history of wine in America is, in many ways, the history of American origins and of American enterprise in microcosm. While much of that history has been lost to sight, especially after Prohibition, the recovery of the record has been the goal of many investigators over the years, and the results are here brought together for the first time. In print in its entirety for the first time, A History of Wine in America is the most comprehensive account of winemaking in the United States, from the Norse discovery of native grapes in 1001 A.D., through Prohibition, and up to the present expansion of winemaking in every state.

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520952225

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The Makers of American Wine by Thomas Pinney Pdf

Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state. While some names—such as Mondavi and Gallo—will be familiar, others are less well known. These include the wealthy Nicholas Longworth, who produced the first popular American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the native Norton grape in Missouri and supplied rootstock to save French vineyards from phylloxera; Frank Schoonmaker, who championed the varietal concept over wines with misleading names; and Maynard Amerine, who helped make UC Davis a world-class winemaking school.

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781597144261

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The City of Vines by Thomas Pinney Pdf

The author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California’s wine trade in the once isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! With incisive analysis and a touch of dry humor, The City of Vines chronicles winemaking in Los Angeles from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century through its decline in the 1950s. Thomas Pinney returns the megalopolis to the prickly pear-studded lands upon which Mission grapes grew for the production of claret, port, sherry, angelica, and hock. From these rural beginnings Pinney reconstructs the entire course of winemaking in a sweeping narrative, punctuated by accounts of particular enterprises including Anaheim’s foundation as a German winemaking settlement and the undertakings of vintners scrambling for market dominance. Yet Pinney also shows Los Angeles’s wine industry to be beholden to the forces that shaped all California under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States: colonial expansion dependent on labor of indigenous peoples; the Gold Rush population boom; transcontinental railroads; rapid urbanization; and Prohibition. This previously untold story uncovers an era when California wine meant Los Angeles wine, and reveals the lasting ways in which the wine industry shaped the nascent metropolis.

Author : Hudson Cattell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780801468995

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Wines of Eastern North America by Hudson Cattell Pdf

In 1975 there were 125 wineries in eastern North America. By 2013 there were more than 2,400. How and why the eastern United States and Canada became a major wine region of the world is the subject of this history. Unlike winemakers in California with its Mediterranean climate, the pioneers who founded the industry after Prohibition—1933 in the United States and 1927 in Ontario—had to overcome natural obstacles such as subzero cold in winter and high humidity in the summer that favored diseases devastating to grapevines. Enologists and viticulturists at Eastern research stations began to find grapevine varieties that could survive in the East and make world-class wines. These pioneers were followed by an increasing number of dedicated growers and winemakers who fought in each of their states to get laws dating back to Prohibition changed so that an industry could begin. Hudson Cattell, a leading authority on the wines of the East, in this book presents a comprehensive history of the growth of the industry from Prohibition to today. He draws on extensive archival research and his more than thirty-five years as a wine journalist specializing in the grape and wine industry of the wines of eastern North America. The second section of the book adds detail to the history in the form of multiple appendixes that can be referred to time and again. Included here is information on the origin of grapes used for wine in the East, the crosses used in developing the French hybrids and other varieties, how the grapes were named, and the types of wines made in the East and when. Cattell also provides a state-by-state history of the earliest wineries that led the way.

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073200531

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˜Aœ History of Wine in America by Thomas Pinney Pdf

Author : Erica Hannickel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208900

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Empire of Vines by Erica Hannickel Pdf

The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture. Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Grapes
ISBN : OSU:32435011256476

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A List of References for the History of Grapes, Wines, and Raisins in America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian M Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317322849

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The Modern American Wine Industry by Ian M Taplin Pdf

This study is both a history of the American wine industry and an examination of its current structure and performance. In analysing market formation, Taplin focuses on a complex network of winery owners, winemakers and grape growers to see how relationships have shaped the evolution of this sector.

Author : Hudson Cattell,Linda Jones McKee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614235774

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Pennsylvania Wine by Hudson Cattell,Linda Jones McKee Pdf

¬From the banks of the Delaware River to the shores of Lake Erie, the fields and hillsides of Pennsylvania are home to a rich tradition of winemaking. Though both William Penn and Benjamin Franklin advocated for the production of wine, it was not until 1787 that Pierre Legaux founded the first commercial vineyard in the state and the nation. Veteran wine journalists Hudson Cattell and Linda Jones McKee offer more than just a taste of the complex story of the Pennsylvania wine industry--from the discovery of the Alexander grape and the boom of Erie County wineries in the nineteenth century to the challenges of Prohibition and the first farm wineries that opened in the 1970s. Join Cattell and McKee as they explore the Keystone State's distinct wine regions and tap the cask on their robust history.

Author : Richard Mendelson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520943209

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From Demon to Darling by Richard Mendelson Pdf

Richard Mendelson brings together his expertise as both a Napa Valley lawyer and a winemaker into this accessible overview of American wine law from colonial times to the present. It is a story of fits and starts that provides a fascinating chronicle of the history of wine in the United States told through the lens of the law. From the country's early support for wine as a beverage to the moral and religious fervor that resulted in Prohibition and to the governmental controls that followed Repeal, Mendelson takes us to the present day—and to the emergence of an authentic and significant wine culture. He explains how current laws shape the wine industry in such areas as pricing and taxation, licensing, appellations, health claims and warnings, labeling, and domestic and international commerce. As he explores these and other legal and policy issues, Mendelson lucidly highlights the concerns that have made wine alternatively the demon or the darling of American society—and at the same time illuminates the ways in which lives and livelihoods are affected by the rise and fall of social movements.

Author : Dick Rosano
Publisher : Board and Bench Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781891267130

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Wine Heritage by Dick Rosano Pdf

Mondavi, Martini, Sebastiani, Gallo, Bargetto and Perelli-Minetti. Who could deny the importance of Italians to the development of America’s wine industry? It is little known that Italians have been planting vineyards and making wine in America since the early colonial days when Filippo Mazzei was the vineyard consultant for Thomas Jefferson. Grapes were planted and nurtured in virtually every corner of America where Italians settled. Wine making was as sacrosanct as making bread or pasta. Here is the story of Italian immigrants whose descendants now dominate American wine making. How they struggled and endured. How they persisted in the face of Prohibition and facilitated legislation permitting home wine making of 200 gallons per family. The intrigue, the feuds, the love affairs and financial triumphs are all in this authenticated history from the earliest days of America to the new Italian/American wine makers.

Author : Paul Lukacs
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0393325164

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American Vintage by Paul Lukacs Pdf

A colorful history of winemaking in the United States traces the rise of the American wine industry during the twentieth century and the visionaries--including Nicholas Longworth, Charles Welch, Gustave Niebaum, the Gallo brothers, and Robert Modavi--who transformed American wine into some of the best in the world. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author : J. Adlum
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871237212

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A memoir on the cultivation of the vine in America by J. Adlum Pdf

Wine is good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately; what is life then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad. "Wine measurably drank, and in season, bringeth gladoess of the heart, and cheerfulness of the mind" Ecclesiasticus, c. 31, v. 27, 28.