A Very Good Year: The Journey of a California Wine from Vine to Table - Hardcover
Traces the author's two-year exploration of a successful Sonoma County winery, a visit during which he learned about the intricate process of grape cultivating, the minutiae of wine creation, and the detailed efforts of marketing and selling, in an account complemented by a history of California wine making and its related issues. 50,000 first printing.
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"Superb. . . . Weiss tells a great story."
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Finally, a wine book that explains all the ingredients. . . . You will marvel at the richness of what Mike Weiss . . . was able to capture and convey within this delicious book."
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Compelling . . . A Very Good Year is both entertaining and comprehensive."
—THE BOSTON GLOBE
"A sweeping book about tourism, globalism, environmental sustainability, immigration, and glamour. . . . The bottle of Fume Blanc . . . is like a Pandora’s box. Open it up and out spill all the vanity, marketing savvy, self-mythologizing, acres of land, buckets of money, precise science, alchemical blending, and feudal working conditions that make up the California dream known as the wine industry."
—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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—THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Finally, a wine book that explains all the ingredients. . . . You will marvel at the richness of what Mike Weiss . . . was able to capture and convey within this delicious book."
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Compelling . . . A Very Good Year is both entertaining and comprehensive."
—THE BOSTON GLOBE
"A sweeping book about tourism, globalism, environmental sustainability, immigration, and glamour. . . . The bottle of Fume Blanc . . . is like a Pandora’s box. Open it up and out spill all the vanity, marketing savvy, self-mythologizing, acres of land, buckets of money, precise science, alchemical blending, and feudal working conditions that make up the California dream known as the wine industry."
—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Mike Weiss is a writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Guardian, and many other publications. He is the author of the acclaimed Ben Henry mystery series and the Edgar Award-winning Double Play.
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- Publication date2005
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- ISBN 13 9781592401291
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