Chasing Cynthiana: My Search for America's Native Wines - Couverture rigide

Hamilton, Lynn

 
9781640126176: Chasing Cynthiana: My Search for America's Native Wines
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ISBN 10 : 1640126171 ISBN 13 : 9781640126176
Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2024

Synopsis

Why do Americans go to the grocery store to buy wine from California, Italy, or New Zealand, when many of us can find an independent winery thirty minutes down the road? Why are locally grown and produced wines so often disdained when locally grown food is upheld as the gold standard? The U.S. wine industry has lagged behind Europe's for far too long for reasons that have little to do with taste or quality, and Prohibition's disruption of domestic wine production provides only part of the explanation.

In Chasing Cynthiana Lynn Hamilton reveals that Americans have far more wine options than they realize. One of those options, made from Norton grapes, has a rich but mostly forgotten history, entwined with the pioneering of America's western states. But Norton (also known as Cynthiana) is often pushed aside to make way for wine varietals from France and Italy.

Is the wine drinker's preference for certain grapes rooted in necessity or tradition? How will climate change alter America's traditional wine regions? Hamilton considers these and other questions as she journeys through some of America's hidden pockets of wine in this exploration of winemaking's history in the United States. Infused with humor and whimsy, Chasing Cynthiana challenges the wine industry's snobbery as well as its complacency when it comes to American vintages.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lynn Hamilton is an independent scholar and the former editor in chief of two Georgia community newspapers, Creative Loafing and the Tybee News. She blogs on environmental policy and animal advocacy and is the author of several books, including Florence Nightingale: A Life Inspired; Florence Nightingale's Sister; and Gandhi: A Life Inspired.

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Éditeur
Potomac Books Inc
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1640126171
ISBN 13 
9781640126176
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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