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The Great Wines of America. The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards and Vintages.
Paul Lukacs
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Description for The Great Wines of America. The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards and Vintages.
Paperback. The stories behind America's finest wines, and the people and places that have made them so admired today. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBXD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
American wine—once an object of ridicule—now holds its own against the world's best. But which wines are America's finest? Who makes them? In The Great Wines of America, Paul Lukacs selects forty wines that have helped elevate American wine to unprecedented heights. Each chapter contains the specific wine's history, the vintner's vision for it, a map of its terroir, and a list of successful vintages.
Not too long ago, American wine was an object of ridicule. When compared to the great growths of Europe, it played in the minor leagues—if it even played the same game. All ... Read more
American wine—once an object of ridicule—now holds its own against the world's best. But which wines are America's finest? Who makes them? In The Great Wines of America, Paul Lukacs selects forty wines that have helped elevate American wine to unprecedented heights. Each chapter contains the specific wine's history, the vintner's vision for it, a map of its terroir, and a list of successful vintages.
Not too long ago, American wine was an object of ridicule. When compared to the great growths of Europe, it played in the minor leagues—if it even played the same game. All ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393329414
SKU
V9780393329414
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About Paul Lukacs
Paul Lukacs is the author of American Vintage and The Great Wines of America. A James Beard, Cliquot, and IACP award winner, he has been writing about wine and its cultural contexts for nearly twenty years. He is a professor of English at Loyola University of Maryland, where he directs the University's Center for the Humanities. He lives in Baltimore. ... Read more
Reviews for The Great Wines of America. The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards and Vintages.
"Lukacs, who is rapidly becoming our leading expert on domestic wine, explains with engaging prose how these wines, and the people behind them, have been essential to the coming of age of American wine."
Michael Apstein - Boston Globe "Mr. Lukacs’s list could easily have resulted in a familiar, ho-hum rendition of greatest hits, but he refuses to settle ... Read more
Michael Apstein - Boston Globe "Mr. Lukacs’s list could easily have resulted in a familiar, ho-hum rendition of greatest hits, but he refuses to settle ... Read more