The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine

Author: Muscatine, DorisEdition: First Edition, First PrintingNumber Of Pages: 640Release Date: 07-09-1984Details: "I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed." With this remarkable sentence, M.F.K. Fisher opens this abundant book, in which forty-four of the most knowledgeable winemakers and wine authorities explore the achievement of California wine from the Mission days to the present. Fisher's reminiscence on the honest wines she has enjoyed over seven decades is followed by an astute essay by the noted wine critic Hugh Johnson showing how the new style of California winemaking has changed the world's way of thinking about California wine—and California's way of thinking about itself. In other original essays eight winemakers, several historians and wine critics,