American Wine: The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wine Producers of the USA

Jancis Robinson, Linda Murphy

Octopus Publishing Group, 2013 - Cooking - 288 pages

American Wine is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference to the wines, wineries, and winemakers of the USA. Written by world-renowned wine writer Jancis Robinson and US wine expert Linda Murphy, it charts the history of wine in America. From the cachet of California to the underdog accomplishments of Michigan and Colorado, the story of American wine has only begun to be told. It charts how America fell in love with wine. From wine production's beginnings in the bathtubs and backyards of recent immigrants to the superb wines the country is producing today, American Wine celebrates all that is truly American about the grape. It looks in unprecedented detail and breadth at the current state of American wine production, its wine regions, terroirs, wineries, vineyards and the larger-than-life characters that populate the American wine scene.The book is organized by geographical regions - West, Southwest, Midwest, Northeast and Southeast. Some states have only a handful of wineries, while others have hundreds or more. Weighted toward the regions that produce the finest wines, it also includes wineries from Hawaii to Florida, Temecula to Maine. American Wine is a major milestone in its story.

About the author

Jancis Robinson MW is internationally renowned for her witty, authoritative wine writing and her books The World Atlas of Wine and The Oxford Companion to Wine are among the most important in wine literature. She is acclaimed as 'awesomely intelligent' (Guardian) and 'a writer of breathtaking clarity' (The Spectator). With www.JancisRobinson.com (subscribers in nearly 100 countries) and her flock of Twitter followers, she is something of an online pioneer as a wine communicator. She makes frequent visits to the USA to stay ahead of the crowd and, in the early 1980s, was the first British journalist to take a serious interest in American wine. Linda Murphy is a journalist-turned-wine-writer, based in California. She is the former wine section editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, where she won two James Beard Awards, and was the managing editor of the New York Times' Wine Today.com. She contributes to www.JancisRobinson.com, Decanter magazine, and several other publications, and judges wine competitions through the USA. Based in Sonoma, she continually travels around the USA to taste the ever-widening range of American wines and meet their makers.

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Wine: The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wine Producers of the USA
• Authors: Jancis Robinson, Linda Murphy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group, 2013
• ISBN: 1845335287, 9781845335281
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / General; Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine