A history of wine in America : from prohibition to the present / Thomas Pinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinney, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine and wine making--United States--History.

Wine and wine making.

Wine industry--United States--History.

Wine industry.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.

Summary:

"A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition. This book describes how Prohibition devastated the wine industry, the conditions of renewal after Repeal, the various New Deal measures that affected wine, and the early markets and methods. Thomas Pinney goes on to examine the effects of World War II and how the troubled postwar years led to the great wine boom of the late 1960s, the spread of winegrowing in almost every state, and its continued expansion to the present day."

"The history of wine in America is, in many ways, the history of America and of American enterprise in microcosm. Pinney's narrative comprises a lively cast of characters that includes politicans, bootleggers, entrepreneurs, growers, scientists, and visionaries. Pinney relates the development of winemaking in states such as New York and Ohio; its extension to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and other states; and its notable successes in California, Washington, and Oregon. He is the first to tell the complete and connected story of the rebirth of the wine industry in California, now one of the most successful winemaking regions in the world."--Jacket.

Contents:

Forms of life in a dry world

The rules change

The dismal '30s

Making and selling wine in the '30s

Countercurrents

Wine in the war years

Postwar disappointments

Back east

Changing weather

The big change: California

A new dawn (I): the northern and central states

A new dawn (II): the south

The west without California

California to the present day.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-506) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

ISBN:

0520241762

9780520241763

OCLC:

56319507

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