The Vikings called North America 'Vinland', the land of wine.
Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described
the grapes of the New World, was sure that 'they would yield
excellent wines'. And when the English settlers found grapes
growing so thickly that they covered the ground down to the very
seashore, they concluded that 'in all the world the like abundance
is not to be found'. Thus, from the very beginning the promise of
America was, in part, the alluring promise of wine. How that
promise was repeatedly baffled, how its realization was gradually
begun, and how at last it has been triumphantly fulfilled is the
story told in this book. It is a story that touches on nearly every
section of the United States and includes the whole range of
American society from the founders to the latest immigrants.
Germans in Pennsylvania, Swiss in Georgia, Minorcans in Florida,
Italians in Arkansas, French in Kansas, Chinese in California - all
contributed to the domestication of Bacchus in the New World. So
too did innumerable individuals, institutions, and organizations.
Prominent politicians, obscure farmers, eager amateurs, sober
scientists: these and all the other kinds and conditions of
American men and women figure in the story. The history of wine in
America is, in many ways, the history of American origins and of
American enterprise in microcosm. While much of that history has
been lost to sight, especially after Prohibition, the recovery of
the record has been the goal of many investigators over the years,
and the results are here brought together for the first time. In
print in its entirety for the first time, "A History of Wine in
America" is the most comprehensive account of winemaking in the
United States, from the Norse discovery of native grapes in 1001
A.D., through Prohibition, and up to the present expansion of
winemaking in every state.
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