Of Vines And Wines

Author : Todd Kliman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780307409379

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The Wild Vine by Todd Kliman Pdf

A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. At a time when the vineyards of France were being ravaged by phylloxera, this grape seemed to promise a bright future for a truly American brand of wine-making, earthy and wild. And then Norton all but vanished. What happened? The narrative begins more than a hundred years before California wines were thought to have put America on the map as a wine-making nation and weaves together the lives of a fascinating cast of renegades. We encounter the suicidal Dr. Daniel Norton, tinkering in his experimental garden in 1820s Richmond, Virginia. Half on purpose and half by chance, he creates a hybrid grape that can withstand the harsh New World climate and produce good, drinkable wine, thus succeeding where so many others had failed so fantastically before, from the Jamestown colonists to Thomas Jefferson himself. Thanks to an influential Long Island, New York, seed catalog, the grape moves west, where it is picked up in Missouri by German immigrants who craft the historic 1873 bottling. Prohibition sees these vineyards burned to the ground by government order, but bootleggers keep the grape alive in hidden backwoods plots. Generations later, retired Air Force pilot Dennis Horton, who grew up playing in the abandoned wine caves of the very winery that produced the 1873 Norton, brings cuttings of the grape back home to Virginia. Here, dot-com-millionaire-turned-vintner Jenni McCloud, on an improbable journey of her own, becomes Norton’s ultimate champion, deciding, against all odds, to stake her entire reputation on the outsider grape. Brilliant and provocative, The Wild Vine shares with readers a great American secret, resuscitating the Norton grape and its elusive, inky drink and forever changing the way we look at wine, America, and long-cherished notions of identity and reinvention.

Author : George Kerridge,Angela Gackle
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0643090665

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Vines for Wines by George Kerridge,Angela Gackle Pdf

"This book is based on the highly successful guide for professional viticulturists, Wine Grape Varieties, which is an aid to identifying the vines. Vines For Wines, however, focuses on the wines from an average consumer's point of view, introducing readers to many enjoyable wine varieties that may lie outside their nomal experience. The book describes the different wine grape varieties and the wines made from them, including their use in blends. It also includes sufficient wine terminology on taste and aroma to make the average consumer's experience both enjoyable and enlightening. " -- v.

Author : Jeff Cox
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781612124391

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From Vines to Wines, 5th Edition by Jeff Cox Pdf

From planting vines to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox covers every aspect of growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine. Fully illustrated instructions show you how to choose and prepare a vineyard site; build trellising systems; select, plant, prune, and harvest the right grapes for your climate; press, ferment, and bottle wine; and judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, and taste. With information on making sparkling wines, ice wines, port-style wines, and more, this comprehensive guide is an essential resource for every winemaker.

Author : Erica Hannickel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Richard Figiel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438453828

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Circle of Vines by Richard Figiel Pdf

Winegrower and journalist Richard Figiel offers the first comprehensive history of New York wine, following its turbulent evolution across the state and emerging as a dynamic player in the world of fine wine. He begins by examining New York's distinctive viticultural roots and the geologic forces that shaped the state's terrain for winegrowing. Starting with early efforts to grow grapes for wine in the Hudson Valley, the story moves west to the Finger Lakes and Lake Erie, circles around the state from Long Island to the North Country, and, finally, to contemporary New York City. Through industry booms and busts, he explores the New York wine industry's continuing process of reinvention by resourceful immigrants, family dynasties, giant corporations, and back-to-the-land dreamers. Moving across centuries of winemaking, Figiel unfolds an extraordinary array of grape species, varieties, and wines.

Author : Patrick Iland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Grapes
ISBN : 0958160554

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The Grapevine by Patrick Iland Pdf

The Grapevine explores the links between the scientific principles and the practice of viticulture. It will be of great interest to anyone involved in viticulture and winemaking as, while it focuses on theory, it also contains practical aspects of growing vines for wine. It covers the basic principles of the molecular, physiological, biochemical and practical aspects of growing vines for wine.

Author : Jules Guyot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590449849

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Culture of the Vine and Wine Making ... Translated from the French by L. Marie by Jules Guyot Pdf

Author : David L. Thurmond
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004334595

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From Vines to Wines in Classical Rome by David L. Thurmond Pdf

David L. Thurmond’s From Vines to Wines in Classical Rome is the first general handbook on winemaking in Rome in over 100 years.

Author : Tim Unwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134761920

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Wine and the Vine by Tim Unwin Pdf

Very few books have products as diverse as those of the grape vine: even fewer have products with such a cultural significance. Wine and the Vine provides an introduction to the historical geography of viticulture and the wine trade from prehistory to the present. It considers wine as both a unique expression of the interaction of people in a particular environment, rich in symbol and meaning, and a commercial product of great economic importance to particular regions.

Author : Richard L. Chilton Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781538106143

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Adventures with Old Vines by Richard L. Chilton Jr. Pdf

Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns can influence the quality of a vintage. A vineyard owner and lifelong wine lover, the author encourages readers to discover wine by tasting, taking notes, and tasting again. The book also includes a richly illustrated, full-color reference section on a select group of vineyards from all over the world, describing their history, winemaking philosophy, terroir, and top vintages—what Chilton calls benchmark wines. The characteristics of these memorable wines provide the essential starting point to understand what to look for when evaluating any wine. Equipped with this easy-to-read reference, readers will have all the tools they need to begin their own wine journey.

Author : Matthew Kettmann
Publisher : Tixcacalcupul Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780938531074

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Vines & Vision by Matthew Kettmann Pdf

Vines & Vision: The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County is a first-of-its-kind exploration of the people, places, history, trends, and soul of Santa Barbara County wine country. Featuring nearly 1,000 photographs by renowned visual anthropologist Macduff Everton and about 100 chapters written by the region's leading food & wine journalist Matt Kettmann, Vines & Vision is a one-stop shop for learning about the past, present, and future of Santa Barbara wine culture.

Author : Richard Figiel
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438453804

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Circle of Vines by Richard Figiel Pdf

Traces the history of the New York wine industry as it evolved across the state. Winegrower and journalist Richard Figiel offers the first comprehensive history of New York wine, following its turbulent evolution across the state and emerging as a dynamic player in the world of fine wine. He begins by examining New York’s distinctive viticultural roots and the geologic forces that shaped the state’s terrain for winegrowing. Starting with early efforts to grow grapes for wine in the Hudson Valley, the story moves west to the Finger Lakes and Lake Erie, circles around the state from Long Island to the North Country, and, finally, to contemporary New York City. Through industry booms and busts, he explores the New York wine industry’s continuing process of reinvention by resourceful immigrants, family dynasties, giant corporations, and back-to-the-land dreamers. Moving across centuries of winemaking, Figiel unfolds an extraordinary array of grape species, varieties, and wines. “This is a clear and coherent theme—the evolution of an important modern wine industry in New York. It is the most complete history of this topic.” — Ian A. Merwin, viticulturalist at Cornell University, coauthor of A Grower’s Guide to Organic Apples “What works is when the book weaves between providing basic history and then anecdotes that illuminate that history. I had difficulty putting the book down because it was entertaining. This should make a very fine contribution to the literature of wine-making in New York.” — John C. Hartsock, author of Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery

Author : George Kerridge,A. J. Antcliff
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0643059822

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Wine Grape Varieties by George Kerridge,A. J. Antcliff Pdf

This book describes 92 of the most popular wine grape varieties currently used by wine makers around the world plus some that may have a place in the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Viticulture
ISBN : UCSC:32106015347583

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Vine to Wine by Anonim Pdf