Crush : the triumph of California wine / John Briscoe.
2018
TP557.5.C2 B75 2018
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Title
Crush : the triumph of California wine / John Briscoe.
Author
ISBN
9780874177152 (electronic book)
0874177154 (electronic book)
9781943859498 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0874177154 (electronic book)
9781943859498 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Published
Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
TP557.5.C2 B75 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1000150733
Summary
Winner, TopShelf Magazine Book Awards Historical Non-fiction Finalist, Northern California Book Awards General Non-Fiction Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world. For the first time, Briscoe tells the complete and dramatic story of the ascendancy of California wine in vivid detail. He also profiles the larger story of California itself by looking at it from an entirely innovative perspective, the state seen through its singular wine history. With dramatic flair and verve, Briscoe not only recounts the history of wine and winemaking in California, he encompasses a multidimensional approach that takes into account an array of social, political, cultural, legal, and winemaking sources. Elements of this history have plot lines that seem scripted by a Sophocles, or Shakespeare. It is a fusion of wine, personal histories, cultural, and socioeconomic aspects. Crush is the story of how wine from California finally gained its global due. Briscoe recounts wine's often fickle affair with California, now several centuries old, from the first harvest and vintage, through the four overwhelming catastrophes, to its amazing triumph in Paris.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Beginnings-Mission Vines, Vignes, and Buena Vista; Chapter One. Early California, the Missions, and Their Eponymous (and Tasteless) Grape: 1769-1833; Chapter Two. "City of Vineyards"-Commercial Winemaking Takes Root in Southern California: 1790s-1890s; Chapter Three. Northern California-The Gold Rush, Agoston Haraszthy, and the Roots of the Modern California Wine Industry: 1836-1869; Chapter Four. After Haraszthy-Sonoma, Napa, and the Confluence of Wealth and Wine: 1860s-1890s
Part II. A Bug, a Temblor, a Sunken Liner, and One Bummer of a Law-Four SetbacksChapter Five. Phylloxera and Other Perils: 1873-1900s; Chapter Six. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: 1906; Chapter Seven. A City Rebuilt, a "War-Ending" War, and an Underattended World's Fair: 1906-1915; Chapter Eight. The Ignoble Experiment of Prohibition: 1920-1933; Part III. After Prohibition-Doldrums, Mondavi, and a Tasting in Paris; Chapter Nine. Repeal, Replant, Replenish, Revive: 1933-1940s; Chapter Ten. Robert Mondavi's Contagious Passion for Wine: 1950s-1970s
Chapter Eleven. Stellar Cellars and the Judgment of Paris: 1960s-1976Chapter Twelve. Now That They've Seen Paris-The California Wine Industry Meets the Twenty-First Century: 1976-Present; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Part II. A Bug, a Temblor, a Sunken Liner, and One Bummer of a Law-Four SetbacksChapter Five. Phylloxera and Other Perils: 1873-1900s; Chapter Six. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: 1906; Chapter Seven. A City Rebuilt, a "War-Ending" War, and an Underattended World's Fair: 1906-1915; Chapter Eight. The Ignoble Experiment of Prohibition: 1920-1933; Part III. After Prohibition-Doldrums, Mondavi, and a Tasting in Paris; Chapter Nine. Repeal, Replant, Replenish, Revive: 1933-1940s; Chapter Ten. Robert Mondavi's Contagious Passion for Wine: 1950s-1970s
Chapter Eleven. Stellar Cellars and the Judgment of Paris: 1960s-1976Chapter Twelve. Now That They've Seen Paris-The California Wine Industry Meets the Twenty-First Century: 1976-Present; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Source of Description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2018).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Briscoe, John. Crush. Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2017
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