How did a country with no winemaking traditions of its own suddenly become a world leader? Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from seventeenth-century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive, nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondavis and Gallos, the powerful first families of American wine in the modern era.
- ISBN10 0393325164
- ISBN13 9780393325164
- Publish Date 18 January 2013 (first published 16 November 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 418
- Language English