Crush : the triumph of California wine

Summary: This is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind taste test in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines in the world. For the first time, Briscoe tells the complete and dramatic story of the ascendancy of California wine in vivid detail. He also profiles the larger story of California itself by looking at it from an entirely innovative perspective, the state seen through its singular wine history. Elements of this history have plot lines that seem scripted from Sophocles or Shakespeare. It is a fusion of wine, personal histories, and the social and economic factors that led to the rise of the industry.

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