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Best Countries for Wine in Latin America

Fox News - Feb 17, 2012
This serves as the first column in a regular series on Latin American wine at Fox News Latino. To begin, I will spotlight each country before branching out to profile Latino and Latina sommeliers and winemakers both in Latin America as well as in North ...

Enjoy an American wine for President's Day

Monroe News Star - Feb 15, 2012
There is something to be said about enjoying a bottle of American wine on this American holiday but as for me I'll revert back to the tastes of the early presidents. What will your choice be — the old world wines of the early presidents or the ...

Red Wine, White House

Wine Spectator - Feb 17, 2012
Here's the story of how they and their successors helped propel American wine to the top of the world Richard Nixon resigned just in time. Had the cantankerous president loitered in the White House too long past 1974, he would have found it ...

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The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines

by: George Husmann
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

by: Julia Flynn Siler
The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built—and then lost—a global wine empire Set in California’s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corp.’s twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama.
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The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge

by: David Kamp, David Lynch

A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy Snob’s Dictionary series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z.

Wine Snob. The very phrase seems redundant, doesn't it? When faced with this snobbiest of snobberies, the civilian wine enthusiast needs the help of savvy translators like David Kamp and David Lynch. Their Wine Snob’s Dictionary delivers witty explication of both old-school oeno-obsessions (What's claret? Who's Michael Broadbent?) and such new-wave terms as "malolactic fermentation" and "fruit bomb.
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American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine

by: Paul Lukacs

Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards

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.
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