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Author:

Conaway, James, author. 98992

Title:

Napa at last light : America's Eden in an age of calamity / James Conaway.

Publisher:

Simon and Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxvi, 308 pages ; 1 map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Wine and wine making--Napa Valley--Napa Valley--History--21st century.
Wine and wine making--Social aspects--Napa Valley.--Napa Valley.
Wine industry--Napa Valley--Napa Valley--History--21st century.
Wine industry--Social aspects--Napa Valley.--Napa Valley.
Napa Valley (Calif.)--History--21st century.
Napa Valley (Calif.)--Social conditions--21st century.
Napa Valley (Calif.)--Economic conditions--21st century.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing -- II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow -- III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival -- IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame -- V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy -- VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown -- VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited.

Summary:

Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region.

ISBN:

1501128450
9781501128455

OCLC:

(OCoLC)990006809

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)