Author: Dianna Graveman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738577777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Before prohibition, Missouri was the second largest wine-producing state in the union, and for a short time during the Civil War, it was number one. Today the state's lush green area overlooking the Missouri River is officially recognized as America's first wine district. Parts of this district have produced wine since the 1830s, when German immigrants from the Rhine River Valley settled in Missouri. The historic towns of Augusta and Defiance, home of pioneer Daniel Boone, are part of this district. Other towns along the river include Dutzow, the first permanent German settlement in Missouri; Washington, which holds the state record for the most buildings on the National Register of Historic Places; and Hermann, recognized by its settlers as a German utopia.
Author: Brett Dufur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964662568
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Everything you need to plan a daytrip or weekend getaway ... including a complete listing of wineries, towns, services, B & Bs, people, places, history, local attractions and nearby state parks.
Author: Todd Kliman
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307409376
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. At a time when the vineyards of France were being ravaged by phylloxera, this grape seemed to promise a bright future for a truly American brand of wine-making, earthy and wild. And then Norton all but vanished. What happened? The narrative begins more than a hundred years before California wines were thought to have put America on the map as a wine-making nation and weaves together the lives of a fascinating cast of renegades. We encounter the suicidal Dr. Daniel Norton, tinkering in his experimental garden in 1820s Richmond, Virginia. Half on purpose and half by chance, he creates a hybrid grape that can withstand the harsh New World climate and produce good, drinkable wine, thus succeeding where so many others had failed so fantastically before, from the Jamestown colonists to Thomas Jefferson himself. Thanks to an influential Long Island, New York, seed catalog, the grape moves west, where it is picked up in Missouri by German immigrants who craft the historic 1873 bottling. Prohibition sees these vineyards burned to the ground by government order, but bootleggers keep the grape alive in hidden backwoods plots. Generations later, retired Air Force pilot Dennis Horton, who grew up playing in the abandoned wine caves of the very winery that produced the 1873 Norton, brings cuttings of the grape back home to Virginia. Here, dot-com-millionaire-turned-vintner Jenni McCloud, on an improbable journey of her own, becomes Norton’s ultimate champion, deciding, against all odds, to stake her entire reputation on the outsider grape. Brilliant and provocative, The Wild Vine shares with readers a great American secret, resuscitating the Norton grape and its elusive, inky drink and forever changing the way we look at wine, America, and long-cherished notions of identity and reinvention.
Author: Tom April
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963145604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Author: Nina Furstenau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938905087
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nina Furstenau has taken to the hills to explore verdant rolling land, winding rivers, good people, and good food. Savor Missouri is a food and travel temptation-- come along for the ride to the river hills for tasty food finds, beautiful vistas, and historic and quaint communities. Our great rivers, the Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Meramec, are agri-tourism magnets with visitors coming to follow wine trails, pick peaches, buy fresh honey, smoked meats, and more.
Author: Kermit Lynch
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710473
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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When Adventures on the Wine Route was first published, Victor Hazan said, "In Kermit Lynch's small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read." A quarter century later, this remarkable journey of wine, travel, and taste remains an essential volume for wine lovers. In 2007, Eric Asimov, in The New York Times, called it "one of the finest American books on wine," and in 2012, The Wall Street Journal pro-claimed that it "may be the best book on the wine business." In celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary, Adventures on the Wine Route has been thoroughly redesigned and updated with an epilogue and a list of the great wine connoisseur's twenty-five most memorable bottles. In this singular tour along the French wine route, Lynch ventures forth to find the very essence of the wine world. In doing so, he never shies away from the attitudes, opinions, and beliefs that have made him one of our most respected and outspoken authorities on wine. Yet his guiding philosophy is exquisitely simple. As he writes in the introduction, "Wine is, above all, about pleasure. Those who make it ponderous make it dull . . . If you keep an open mind and take each wine on its own terms, there is a world of magic to discover." Adventures on the Wine Route is the ultimate quest for this magic via France's most distinguished vineyards and wine cellars. Lynch draws vivid portraits of vintners—from inebriated négociants to a man who oversees a vineyard that has been in his family for five hundred years—and memorably evokes the countryside at every turn. "The French," Lynch writes, "with their aristocratic heritage, their experience and tradition, approach wine from another point of view . . . and one cannot appreciate French wine with any depth of understanding without knowing how the French themselves look at their wines, by going to the source, descending into their cold, humid cellars, tasting with them, and listening to the language they employ to describe their wines." Here, Kermit Lynch assures a whole new generation of readers—as well as his loyal fans—that discussions about wine need not focus so stringently on "the pH, the oak, the body, the finish," but rather on the "gaiety" of the way "the tart fruit perfume[s] the palate and the brain."
Author: Harold Gordon Swartwout
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Author: Brett Dufur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891708466
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Ralph Steadman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151011674
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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From Chile to California, South Africa to Alsace, Steadman has seen the best of the world's wine-producing regions. On a search for the unique and original, he brings the landscape and its people to life with pictures and prose.
Author: Pamela Watson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966711646
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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This comprehensive Florida travel guidebook offers a complete listing of the vineyards and wineries in Florida, focusing on the region from St. Augustine to Pensacola, including the fast-growing Gainesville to Ocala area. Here you'll meet the winemakers and read the fascinating stories of the people behind the scenes who dedicate their lives to growing grapes and creating liquid art for the rest of us to enjoy. Learn where the first wine in America was made, what kinds of grapes grow in Florida, where wine research is being done today, and how the Florida wine industry is growing. Each chapter includes a listing of things to do near the winery with complete contact information. There are also listings for area chambers of commerce, CVBs, and tourist information bureaus. You'll find local attractions, shopping, state parks, historic sites, bed and breakfast inns, outdoor activities, museums, art galleries, places to eat and more. The book is indexed for quick reference, with over 120 photos and illustrations, including a map of all the wineries. There is also a listing of regional wine festivals and a section of cooking with wine recipes to try at home. More than a guidebook, Florida Wine Country Guide to Northern Wineries includes the history of winemaking and a chapter on some of the recent wine and health research being done with grapes. A great guide to keep in your car, or for armchair travel, this book is for everyone who likes wine and likes to travel.
