Los Angeles Wine

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Stuart Douglass Byles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614238874

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Los Angeles Wine by Stuart Douglass Byles Pdf

The renowned California wine industry, famous for northern vintages, actually was born near El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Spanish missionaries harvested the first vintage in 1782 at Mission San Juan Capistrano and then cultivated enormous vineyards at Mission San Gabriel. Their replanted vine-cuttings took root on Jose Maria Verdugo's 1784 Spanish land grant in what became Glendale. Jean Louis Vignes brought a Bordeaux winemaking experience to LA in 1831 and initiated wine trade with San Francisco. By 1848, Los Angeles contained one hundred vineyards. Author Stuart Douglass Byles traces the little-known LA wine tradition through vintners of the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, Anaheim and Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula Valley and Malibu and details the San Antonio Winery heritage, the last one standing from old Los Angeles days.

Author : Marissa A. Ross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780399574177

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Wine. All the Time. by Marissa A. Ross Pdf

“Can I just be Marissa, please? I want to be hilarious and sexy and smart and insanely knowledgeable about wine.” —Mindy Kaling A fresh, fun, and unpretentious guide to wine from Marissa A. Ross, official wine columnist for Bon Appétit. Does the thought of having to buy wine for a dinner party stress you out? Is your go-to strategy to pick the bottle with the coolest label? Are you tired of choosing pairings based on your wallet, instead of your palate? Fear not! Bon Appétit wine columnist and Wine. All The Time. blogger Marissa A. Ross is here to help. In this utterly accessible yet comprehensive guide to wine, Ross will walk you through the ins and outs of wine culture. Told in her signature comedic voice, with personal anecdotes woven in among its lessons, Wine. All the Time. will teach you to sip confidently, and make you laugh as you're doing it. In Wine. All The Time., you’ll learn how to: • Describe what you’re drinking, and recognize your preferences • Find the best bottle for you budget and occasion • Read and understand what’s written on a wine label • Make the perfect pairings between what you’re drinking and what you’re eating • Throw the best damn dinner party your guests will ever attend • And much more

Author : Darlene Geis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cooking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039684209

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The Los Angeles Times Book of California Wines by Darlene Geis Pdf

Author : Kris Yenbamroong,Garrett Snyder
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780451497871

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Night + Market by Kris Yenbamroong,Garrett Snyder Pdf

If you love to eat Thai food, but don’t know how to cook it, Kris Yenbamroong wants to solve your problems. His brash style of spicy, sharp Thai party food is created, in part, by stripping down traditional recipes to wring maximum flavor out of minimum hassle. Whether it’s a scorching hot crispy rice salad, lush coconut curries, or a wok-seared pad Thai, it’s all about demystifying the universe of Thai flavors to make them work in your life. Kris is the chef of Night + Market, and this cookbook is the story of his journey from the Thai-American restaurant classics he grew eating at his family’s restaurant, to the rural cooking of Northern Thailand he fell for traveling the countryside. But it’s also a story about how he came to question what authenticity really means, and how his passion for grilled meats, fried chicken, tacos, sushi, wine and good living morphed into an L.A. Thai restaurant with a style all its own.

Author : Charles E. Olken,Joseph Furstenthal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520253131

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The New Connoisseurs' Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries by Charles E. Olken,Joseph Furstenthal Pdf

"I have depended on Charles Olken's Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine for more than 35 years. This new Guidebook is a perfect complement. No other book comes close to its thoroughness, accuracy, and usefulness. It is a must for travelers in California's wine country."—Charles L. Sullivan, author of Zinfandel "Olken's perspective on California wines is unmatched: he spans the landscape from the postwar pioneers to the newest garagistes, and wine criticism from before Parker to the age of blogs. This new guidebook is informed by his 35 years of careful, candid, and comprehensive attention to California wine."—John Winthrop Haeger, author of Pacific Pinot Noir

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520254299

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

"Completely fascinating, Pinney's History of Wine in America combines a myriad of facts about all the states that have endeavored to grow grapes at any time since colonial days into a readable and coherent story. The only study to approach wine through its historical aspects, it will be invaluable to wine writers who want to include historical perspectives in their articles and it will be seized upon by grape growers and wineries throughout the country who want to discover their region's historical roots in viticulture and winemaking. A significant contribution to scholarship, this book should have broad appeal."—John R. McGrew, USDA Agricultural Research Service (retired)

Author : California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Viticulture
ISBN : HARVARD:HXHR9W

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Annual Report of the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners by California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners Pdf

Author : Patrick J. Comiskey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520965140

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American Rhone by Patrick J. Comiskey Pdf

"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal "This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic, scholarly but accessible, and full of unexpected details and characters."—The World of Fine Wine No wine category has seen more dramatic growth in recent years than American Rhône–variety wines. Winemakers are devoting more energy, more acreage, and more bottlings to Rhône varieties than ever before. The flagship Rhône red, Syrah, is routinely touted as one of California’s most promising varieties, capable of tremendous adaptability as a vine, wonderfully variable in style, and highly expressive of place. There has never been a better time for American Rhône wine producers. American Rhône is the untold history of the American Rhône wine movement. The popularity of these wines has been hard fought; this is a story of fringe players, unknown varieties, and longshot efforts finding their way to the mainstream. It’s the story of winemakers gathering sufficient strength in numbers to forge a triumph of the obscure and the brash. But, more than this, it is the story of the maturation of the American palate and a new republic of wine lovers whose restless tastes and curiosity led them to Rhône wines just as those wines were reaching a critical mass in the marketplace. Patrick J. Comiskey’s history of the American Rhône wine movement is both a compelling underdog success story and an essential reference for the wine professional.

Author : Frances Dinkelspiel
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250033215

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Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel Pdf

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. With a propane torch and a bucket of gasoline-soaked rags, Anderson annihilated entire California vineyard libraries as well as bottles of some of the most sought-after wines in the world. Among the priceless bottles destroyed were 175 bottles of Port and Angelica from one of the oldest vineyards in California made by Frances Dinkelspiel's great-great grandfather, Isaias Hellman, in 1875. Sadly, Mark Anderson was not the first to harm the industry. The history of the California wine trade, dating back to the 19th Century, is a story of vineyards with dark and bloody pasts, tales of rich men, strangling monopolies, the brutal enslavement of vineyard workers and murder. Five of the wine trade murders were associated with Isaias Hellman's vineyard in Rancho Cucamonga beginning with the killing of John Rains who owned the land at the time. He was shot several times, dragged from a wagon and left off the main road for the coyotes to feed on. In her new book, Frances Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed and violence lying in wait. Few people sipping a fine California Cabernet can even guess at the Tangled Vines where its life began.

Author : California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
ISBN : UCD:31175003804922

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Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society by California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
ISBN : UCAL:B3028936

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Report of the California State Agricultural Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : California
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74616874

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Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ... by California Pdf

Author : Vincent P. Carosso
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1951-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0520031784

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The California Wine Industry, 1830-1895 by Vincent P. Carosso Pdf

History of the wine industry in California during the nineteenth century: its growth and decline due to a financial depression and the invasion of the vine disease phylloxera; its recovery to become an important part of the agricultural economy of the state.

Author : George M. Walker & John Peragine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439662540

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Cucamonga Valley Wine by George M. Walker & John Peragine Pdf

The Cucamonga Valley was once America's largest wine-producing region, crafting quality vintages decades before Napa and Sonoma. Secondo Guasti, an ambitious and enterprising Italian immigrant, established the region's first vineyard in 1901, and others soon followed. Wineries like the Vai Brothers, Padre, Galleano, Brookside and more made the valley the epicenter of a burgeoning industry. Not even Prohibition could halt production. While domestic breweries and distilleries shuttered, Cucamonga's brandy and sherry continued to be legally made for culinary and medicinal purposes. Yet by the late 1970s, harvests had dwindled and vineyards vanished. Urbanization, vine disease and property taxes effectively ended production. Today, local vintners and wine enthusiasts are reviving the region's proud heritage. Authors George M. Walker and John Peragine uncork a legacy too delectable to die.