Author: Lapsley, James T.
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Bottled Poetry: Napa Winemaking from Prohibition to the Modern Era
Price: $9.98
Publisher: University of California Press : January 1997
Seller ID: 450019
ISBN-13: 9780520202726
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal of Prohibition. Focusing primarily on the formative years of Napa's fine winemaking, 1934 to 1967, Lapsley then concludes with a chapter on the wine boom of the 1970s, placing it in a social context and explaining the role of Napa vineyards in the beverage's growing popularity. Names familiar to wine...
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