American Vintage - Book of the month July 2025
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The book "American Vintage. The Rise of the American Wine" is written by Paul Lukacs, a wine columnist with articles published in the Washington Times and The Washingtonian.
How did a country like America, with no winemaking traditions of its own. suddenly become a world leader?
Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from XVII century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondays and Gallos, the powerful first families of America wine in the modern era.
The book is a colorful history of winemaking in the United States and it traces the rise of the American wine industry during the twentieth century and the visionaries who transformed American wine into some of the best in the world.
Chapters:
How did a country like America, with no winemaking traditions of its own. suddenly become a world leader?
Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from XVII century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondays and Gallos, the powerful first families of America wine in the modern era.
The book is a colorful history of winemaking in the United States and it traces the rise of the American wine industry during the twentieth century and the visionaries who transformed American wine into some of the best in the world.
Chapters:
- Introduction: Doubtless as good
- Eastern Dreams
- California Gold
- Wine as booze
- First families
- Machines in the garden
- Small is beautiful
- Beyond California
- The rise of the american cuisine
- The world comes knocking
- Afterword for the paperback edition
Reasons to read the book: The book wisely avoids technical data, wine industry jargon, and the tasting notes that pass for so much wine writing. This is social history; it deals with people and, in Paul Lukacs's hands, a fascinating lot they are - New York Times
Where you can find the book: the book is published in English and you can find it online on Books Express; the orders are received in about 2-3 weeks.
Carmina Nițescu
Winesday & Winesday App
Where you can find the book: the book is published in English and you can find it online on Books Express; the orders are received in about 2-3 weeks.
Carmina Nițescu
Winesday & Winesday App