Napa at last light : America's Eden in an age of calamity

Summary: Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region.

Item details

ISBN: 9781501128455
ISBN: 1501128450
ISBN: 9781501128479
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 308 pages ; map ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing -- II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow -- III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival -- IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame -- V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy -- VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown -- VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited.

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Subject:

Wine and wine making California Napa Valley History 21st century
Wine and wine making Social aspects California Napa Valley
Wine industry California Napa Valley History 21st century
Wine industry Social aspects California Napa Valley
Napa Valley (Calif.) History 21st century
Napa Valley (Calif.) Social conditions 21st century
Napa Valley (Calif.) Economic conditions 21st century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness
COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
Economic history
Social conditions
Wine and wine making
Wine and wine making Social aspects
Wine industry
Wine industry Social aspects
California Napa Valley

Genre:

History.
Nonfiction.

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