California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions
today, but this has not always been true. James T. Lapsley's
entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence
among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the
region and its wines following the repeal of Prohibition. Focusing
on the formative years of Napa's fine winemaking, 1934 to 1967,
Lapsley concludes with a chapter on the wine boom of the 1970s,
placing it in a social context and explaining the role of Napa
vineyards in the beverage's growing popularity. Names familiar to
wine drinkers appear throughout these pages-Beaulieu, Beringer,
Charles Krug, Christian Brothers, Inglenook, Louis Martini-and the
colorful stories behind the names give this book a personal
dimension. As strong-willed, competitive winemakers found ways to
work cooperatively, both in sharing knowledge and technology and in
promoting their region, the result was an unprecedented improvement
in wine quality that brought with it a new reputation for the Napa
Valley. In The Silverado Squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson refers
to wine as "bottled poetry," and although Stevenson's reference was
to the elite vineyards of France, his words are appropriate for
Napa wines today. Their success, as Lapsley makes clear, is due to
much more than the beneficence of sun and soil. Craft, vision, and
determination have played a part too, and for that, wine drinkers
the world over are grateful. This title is part of UC Press's
Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1996.
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