Vineyards in the Sky: The Life of Legendary Vintner Martin Ray - Hardcover
Vineyards in the Sky is the lively biography of Martin Ray, the charismatic California vintner who launched America's Wine Revolution. This third edition has been updated with new text and photos by Barbara Marinacci. In Vineyards in the Sky you will view a century of California wine history, woven into the interconnected lives of French-born vintners Paul Masson and Martin Ray. Live vicariously those exciting years when Martin Ray owned Paul Masson's Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California from the mid 1930s to the early 1940s. Share the decades when Martin Ray, at his own vineyards on Mt Eden in the Santa Cruz Mountains, was host to internationally famous celebrities and wine connoisseurs. Glimpse through Martin Ray's turbulent career the eternal dream of wine that lures people to the winegrower's way of life. Experience all four dimensions of a forceful man who worked, loved, talked, laughed, fought, drank wine, enjoyed life, and dreamed in larger-than-life ways.
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About the Author:
Eleanor Ray was born in 1904 in Yakima, Washington. In 1951 her best-selling humorous book celebrating the delights of single parenting, We Kept Mother Single, was published. Shortly thereafter, she married Martin Ray. After Martin's death in 1976, she continued to live in their chateau on Mt. Eden in Saratoga until her death at the age of 96 in 2000. Barbara Kamb Marinacci, Eleanor Ray's daughter has written or co-authored ten books, and has edited or ghostwritten numerous others. With her own three children now grown, she lives on Martin Ray's vineyard property, where she keeps busy with writing and editing projects and gardening.
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The small press publication ... is certainly worth tracking down...it is a gripping memoir that reads like a 'major' novel. -- Anthony Dias Blue, WCBS, January 20, 1993 Vineyards in the Sky ... will fascinate anyone interested in the early days of the California wine boom. --Frank J. Prial, New York Times, December 16, 1992
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- PublisherHeritage West Books
- ISBN 10 0962304840
- ISBN 13 9780962304842
- BindingHardcover
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Vineyards In The Sky: The Life Of Legendary Vintner Martin Ray
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Stockton, Calif. : Heritage West Books, c1993.
(1993)
ISBN 10: 0962304840
ISBN 13: 9780962304842
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