The Wild Vine

Author : Todd Kliman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307409376
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Vine written by Todd Kliman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. At a time when the vineyards of France were being ravaged by phylloxera, this grape seemed to promise a bright future for a truly American brand of wine-making, earthy and wild. And then Norton all but vanished. What happened? The narrative begins more than a hundred years before California wines were thought to have put America on the map as a wine-making nation and weaves together the lives of a fascinating cast of renegades. We encounter the suicidal Dr. Daniel Norton, tinkering in his experimental garden in 1820s Richmond, Virginia. Half on purpose and half by chance, he creates a hybrid grape that can withstand the harsh New World climate and produce good, drinkable wine, thus succeeding where so many others had failed so fantastically before, from the Jamestown colonists to Thomas Jefferson himself. Thanks to an influential Long Island, New York, seed catalog, the grape moves west, where it is picked up in Missouri by German immigrants who craft the historic 1873 bottling. Prohibition sees these vineyards burned to the ground by government order, but bootleggers keep the grape alive in hidden backwoods plots. Generations later, retired Air Force pilot Dennis Horton, who grew up playing in the abandoned wine caves of the very winery that produced the 1873 Norton, brings cuttings of the grape back home to Virginia. Here, dot-com-millionaire-turned-vintner Jenni McCloud, on an improbable journey of her own, becomes Norton’s ultimate champion, deciding, against all odds, to stake her entire reputation on the outsider grape. Brilliant and provocative, The Wild Vine shares with readers a great American secret, resuscitating the Norton grape and its elusive, inky drink and forever changing the way we look at wine, America, and long-cherished notions of identity and reinvention.

Author : Sandra Pesini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971422100
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Vine written by Sandra Pesini and published by . This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her mother's untimely death, seven-year-old Abigail must endure an alcoholic stepfather, a well-meaning but unsavory orphanage, and a grandfather ruled by a designing woman. The traumatic seeds of Abigail's unstable childhood grow, flourish and pervade her adolescence and marriage.

Author : Nehemiah ROGERS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Vine: Or an Exposition on Isaiah's Parabolicall Song of the Beloved: Isa. 5. 1, 2, 3, Etc written by Nehemiah ROGERS and published by . This book was released on 1632 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. D. Wilkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937512552
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vine That Ate the South written by J. D. Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as 'The Deadening,' where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice--the one and only Carver Canute--set out down the Old Spur Line in search of the legendary Kudzu House, where an old couple is purported to have been swallowed whole by a hungry vine"--Amazon.co

Author : Erica Hannickel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208900
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Vines written by Erica Hannickel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture. Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.

Author : Sergio Esposito
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767926080
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passion on the Vine written by Sergio Esposito and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still sopping with milk and salt, and the platters of fresh prosciutto, sliced so thin he could see through it, he absorbed the profound relationship of food, wine, and family in Italian culture. Growing up in Albany, New York, after emigrating there with his family, he always sat next to his uncle Aldo and sipped from his wineglass during their customary hours-long extended family feasts. Thus, from a very early age, Esposito came to associate wine with the warmth of family, the tastes of his mother’s cooking—and, above all, memories of his former life in Italy. When he was in his twenties, he headed for New York and undertook a career in wine, beginning a journey that would culminate in his founding of Italian Wine Merchants, now the leading Italian wine source in America. His career offered him the opportunity to make frequent trips back to Italy to find wine for his clients, to learn the traditions of Italian winemaking, and, in so doing, to rediscover the Italian way of life he’d left behind. Passion on the Vine is Esposito’s intimate and evocative memoir of his colorful family life in Italy, his abrupt transition to life in America, and of his travels into the heart of Italy—its wine country—and the lives of those who inhabit it. The result is a remarkably engaging and entertaining wine/travel narrative replete with vivid portraits of seductive places—the world-famous cellars of Piedmont, the sweeping estates of Tuscany, the lush fields of Campania, the chilly hills of Friuli, the windy beaches of Le Marche; and of memorable people, diverse and vibrant wine artisans—from a disco-dancing vintner who bases his farming on the rhythm of the moon to an obsessive prince who destroys his vineyards before his death so that his grapes will never be used incorrectly. Esposito’s luscious accounts of the wonderful food and wine that are so much a part of Italian life, and his poignant and often hilarious stories of his relationships with his family and Italian friends, make Passion on the Vine an utterly unique and enchanting work about Italy and its eternally seductive lifestyle.

Author : Jean-Jacques Dufour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Vine-dresser's Guide written by Jean-Jacques Dufour and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avec quelques comparaisons sur la production de vin dans le canton de Vaud dont l'auteur est issu.

Author : Jolie Vines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obsessed (Wild Mountain Scots, #1) written by Jolie Vines and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the leader of the mountain rescue service. She might just need saving. Lochie For too long, I've been alone. Just me and my daughter. Keeping her safe is everything, so taking a job in the remote Scottish Highlands suits us fine. I shouldn't need anything more. Yet I'm beyond distracted by a lass. Smart, beautiful, and living right next door, Cait McRae makes it clear she's not interested. Every sly glance tells another story. It's all I can do not to throw her over my shoulder and take her home. Cait might claim she only wants to explore the physical, but I know she's wrong. She's mine. If the people pursuing us both don't destroy what we've found. Cait I always knew I was different. No one ever caught my eye. Until a huge, scowling man moves in next door. He's the new head of the mountain rescue service, and a single dad to a sweet little girl. Turns out, I'm a late bloomer, as all I can think about is Lochie. But someone else wants me. A series of strange events point to one conclusion. I have a stalker, and the danger I'm in is only just starting. -- The Wild Mountain Scots series follows on from the Wild Scots series with more of your favourite McRaes. Meet the brooding, tough, protective men of the mountain rescue and the beautiful women who tame their hearts. Download Obsessed now!

Author : Eugene Woldemar Hilgard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grafting the California Wild Vine written by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Granville Bantock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Ode I[-IV] from Atalanta in Calydon written by Sir Granville Bantock and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: