Napa at last light : America's Eden in an age of calamity / James Conaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conaway, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine and wine making--California--Napa Valley--History--21st century.

Wine and wine making.

Wine and wine making--Social aspects--California--Napa Valley.

Wine industry--California--Napa Valley--History--21st century.

Wine industry.

Wine industry--Social aspects--California--Napa Valley.

Wine industry--Social aspects.

History.

Wine and wine making--Social aspects.

Napa Valley (Calif.)--History--21st century.

Napa Valley (Calif.).

Napa Valley (Calif.)--Social conditions--21st century.

Napa Valley (Calif.)--Economic conditions--21st century.

Economic history.

Social conditions.

California--Napa Valley.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 308 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm

Other Title:

America's Eden in an age of calamity

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, [2018]

Summary:

Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region.

Contents:

I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing

II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow

III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival

IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame

V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy

VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown

VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781501128455

1501128450

OCLC:

990006809