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Napa at last light : America's Eden in an age of calamity
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- Summary
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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.
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- Creator
- James Conaway
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [2018]
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xxvi, 308 pages ; map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781501128455, 1501128450, 9781501128479
- OCLC
- ocn990006809
- Includes index.
- 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
Subjects
- Wine and wine making -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.
- Wine and wine making -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.
- Wine industry -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.
- Wine industry -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.
- Napa Valley (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
- Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
- Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.