Download e-book for iPad: The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years by Thomas Pinney

By Thomas Pinney

ISBN-10: 0520269535

ISBN-13: 9780520269538

americans discovered easy methods to make wine effectively approximately 200 years in the past, after failing for greater than 200 years. Thomas Pinney takes an attractive method of the heritage of yankee wine by means of telling its tale during the lives of thirteen those who performed major roles in construction an that now extends to each kingdom. whereas a few names—such as Mondavi and Gallo—will be accepted, others are much less popular. those contain the rich Nicholas Longworth, who produced the 1st renowned American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the local Norton grape in Missouri and provided rootstock to avoid wasting French vineyards from phylloxera; Frank Schoonmaker, who championed the varietal suggestion over wines with deceptive names; and Maynard Amerine, who helped make UC Davis a world-class winemaking school.

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