A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition (Repost)
Thomas Pinney "A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition"
University of California Press | 1990 | ISBN: 0520062248 | 553 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
University of California Press | 1990 | ISBN: 0520062248 | 553 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground down to the very seashore, they concluded that "in all the world the like abundance is not to be found." Thus, from the very beginning the promise of America was, in part, the alluring promise of wine. How that promise was repeatedly baffled, how its realization was gradually begun, and how at last it has been triumphantly fulfilled is the story told in this book.