The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred YearsAmericans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state. While some names—such as Mondavi and Gallo—will be familiar, others are less well known. These include the wealthy Nicholas Longworth, who produced the first popular American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the native Norton grape in Missouri and supplied rootstock to save French vineyards from phylloxera; Frank Schoonmaker, who championed the varietal concept over wines with misleading names; and Maynard Amerine, who helped make UC Davis a world-class winemaking school. |
Contents
A Man with a Mission | 1 |
Fête des Vignerons Vevey | 2 |
Share certificate Kentucky Vineyard Society | 7 |
The Alexander grape | 13 |
The Necessary Entrepreneur | 22 |
Nicholas Longworth | 24 |
The Catawba grape | 29 |
Longworths vineyards | 33 |
Garrett and Company wineries | 117 |
Virginia Dare | 119 |
Creating New Markets | 127 |
Ernest and Julio Gallo | 128 |
Be Jolly By Golly Buy Gallo advertisement | 131 |
Charles Crawford Julio Gallo Ernest Gallo | 137 |
A Master Teacher 149 | 149 |
Frank Schoonmaker | 155 |
A Pure and Lofty Faith 39 | 39 |
George Husmann | 41 |
View of Hermann Missouri in 1869 | 47 |
Cover the Grape Culturist | 49 |
Putting California Wines on the Map 57 | 57 |
Charles Kohler | 59 |
Kohler and Frohlings Glen Ellen cellar | 72 |
Kohler and Frohlings San Francisco headquarters | 73 |
The Italians Are Coming | 75 |
Tipo advertisement | 81 |
Pietro Rossi and Andrea Sbarboro | 82 |
Cover The Fight for True Temperance | 88 |
Wine as Big Business | 90 |
California Wine Association trademark | 92 |
Winehaven | 103 |
Percy Morgan | 105 |
American Wine for Americans 107 | 107 |
Paul Garrett | 115 |
Back label Almadén Pinot noir | 167 |
Applied Science | 171 |
Maynard Amerine | 175 |
Experimental wine cellar University of California Davis | 190 |
Zealot at Work | 195 |
Konstantin Frank | 197 |
Konstantin Frank and Charles Fournier | 201 |
Franks Riesling trockenbeerenauslese label | 207 |
Aiming for the Top | 215 |
Robert Mondavi | 216 |
Robert Mondavi winery | 230 |
Women Become Winemakers | 236 |
Cathy Corison | 239 |
Cathy Corison and her Subaru | 247 |
Sources and Works Cited | 289 |
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