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Bottled Poetry: Napa Winemaking from Prohibition to the Modern Era

Bottled Poetry: Napa Winemaking from Prohibition to the Modern Era

Lapsley, James T.

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ISBN10: 0520302540
ISBN13: 9780520302549
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 25 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James T. 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 on the formative years of Napa's fine winemaking, 1934 to 1967, Lapsley 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 drinkers appear throughout these pages--Beaulieu, Beringer, Charles Krug, Christian Brothers, Inglenook, Louis Martini--and the colorful stories behind the names give this book a personal dimension. As strong-willed, competitive winemakers found ways to work cooperatively, both in sharing knowledge and technology and in promoting their region, the result was an unprecedented improvement in wine quality that brought with it a new reputation for the Napa Valley.

In The Silverado Squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson refers to wine as bottled poetry, and although Stevenson's reference was to the elite vineyards of France, his words are appropriate for Napa wines today. Their success, as Lapsley makes clear, is due to much more than the beneficence of sun and soil. Craft, vision, and determination have played a part too, and for that, wine drinkers the world over are grateful.

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