- California is the most important wine area on the earth, in addition to considered one of its most-regarded – this guide tells its story
- Articles and extracts from a few of the most liked wine writers of yesterday and as we speak
- A necessary wine guide for each wine lover and wine pupil
- Fantastically designed and illustrated to convey the area to life on the web page
On California explores the grapes and the individuals who have made California wine nice. The pioneers, the boffins, the whizz-kids and scientists, a lot of whom inform their tales on its pages – some in valuable archive materials, others have set down their ideas mid pandemic in 2021: Randall Grahm, Gerald Asher, Steven Spurrier, Paul Draper and Warren Winiarski take a bow….
Consists of:
- California wine and the longer term: the place will the ‘California spirit’ lead subsequent?
- The ‘Hollywood Grape’: our authors chart the trail of Cabernet Sauvignon, from the wish-list of Thomas Jefferson to the hallowed hillsides of Stag’s Leap and Screaming Eagle
- 1976? In fact it was a contest! Steven Spurrier and Patricia Gallagher look again on the motivations behind the well-known Paris wine tasting
- High New York sommelier Victoria James tells of her near-death introduction to the whacky world of winemaking in Sonoma
- Will the actual Zinfandel please arise? Paul Draper seeks out the true heritage of California’s versatile orphan grape
- Contributions from prime California writers: Elaine Chukan Brown, Mary Margaret McCamic MW, Karen MacNeil, Esther Mobley, Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Liz Thach MW, Clare Tooley MW, and Kelli White
- Hugh Johnson, Jane Anson and Fiona Morrison MW introduce California’s intrepid wine pioneers
- Rex Pickett’s Sideways heroes, Jack and Miles, clink glasses over the Central Coast’s most interesting Pinot Noir
- A–Z: from ‘Bob’ Mondavi to Xylem sap-sensors and pink Zinfandel – California wine in bite-size
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