American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393325164)

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 in the modern era.

Author: Paul Lukacs
ISBN-10: 0393325164
ISBN-13: 9780393325164
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 418
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.54w x 1.02d