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A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the Present
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by Thomas Pinney
Sales Rank: 280706
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 548 pages
Published by: University of California PressEdition: 1st Edition July 5, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0520241762
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520241763
Book Dimensions:
10 x 6.9 x 1.8 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
In this comprehensive sequel to his History of Wine in America: From the Beginning to Prohibition (1989), Pinney delves into the legislation that has produced, and hampered, the creation of great American wine. It is a story of setbacks, confusing laws, bankruptcies and buyouts. Figures and statistics about all parts of the industry-from growers to wine makers to middlemen to connoisseurs-expand the focus beyond Napa. The tragic story of New York's Finger Lakes wineries sits alongside statistics on Washington's humble berry-wine beginnings, for example. After a careful analysis of the Volstead Act, Pinney traces the shift in grape plantings (from fine wine grapes to shipping-friendly seedless grapes) that resulted in a dominance of sweet fortified wine for decades after Prohibition. The Supreme Court decision in May that wine could be shipped across state lines makes this book particularly timely since confusing state laws and how they've created or destroyed local winemakers is a reoccurring theme. While Pinney's focus on law rather than on luminous personalities or colorful terrine can result in some dry chapters, his sentences often sparkle with wry humor: "the fact that he prospered at brokering stocks during the Depression says a great deal about him" he writes about Martin Ray, an obsessive gentleman winemaker in California's early history. And the final chapters still have the feeling of magic about them: so much of American's wine future is yet unwritten.
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From Booklist
More than a decade after his history of the beginnings of American winemaking appeared, Pinney brings his comprehensive treatise up to date with a second volume covering the period from Prohibition to the present day. The explosive growth of winemaking, particularly in California, since the middle of the twentieth century has been recorded anecdotally in many an introduction to wine appreciation and in any number of vintners' memoirs, but Pinney's work scrupulously documents how vineyards multiplied and adds careful research and statistical measures to the record. Most of this history addresses wine professionals and economists, but some of Pinney's prose will intrigue the more casual reader. His account of Prohibition's impact on wineries, as growers went gradually from initial despair to active involvement and unprecedented success in actually repealing a constitutional amendment, provides an object lesson for other change movements. Although the volume's narrative focuses on California, Pinney in no way neglects the Great Lakes and other lesser-known grape-growing regions. Extensive footnotes and bibliography. Mark Knoblauch
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