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...Rick Hendricks Abstract Imported grapes planted in El Paso del Norte around the middle of the seventeenth century grew to be substantial vineyards by the opening decades of the eighteenth century. Some growers had tens of thousands of vines under cultivation and produced wine and brandy...

... To the 1976 France vs. California Rivalry That Changed Some Attitudes," The New York Times , 22 May1996, B -5. 17 James D. Hofer, "Cucamonga Wines and Vines: A History of the Cucamonga Pioneer Vineyard Association" (master’s thesis, Claremont University, 1983) Donald Joseph de la Peña, "Vineyards...

...," an oral history conducted in 1972 by Teiser, BL, p. 40. 25 Beckstoffer, "Premium California Vineyardist," 24. 26 Michael Moone, "Management and Marketing at Beringer Vineyards and Wine World, Inc," an oral history conducted in 1989 by Lisa Jacobson, BL, p. 55. 27 Geraci, Salud. 28...

... on the skills that had made them a success in other fields: they knew how to make money and how to hire people who knew how to make things?or in this case grow grapes and, later, make wine. The book is replete with names and pedigrees of the best vineyard and winery managers. Movers-and-shakers in their own...

...-inclusive ecology of the vineyard that takes in the composition of the bedrock, the timing of the frost, the amount and intensity of rainfall, and interestingly, says Wil? son, the technique and soul of the vigneron. Wine is not a commodity, says Wilson, but a finely crafted product, each vintage...

..., which is connected with vineyard spaces as intellectual property to guard against wine fraud. That may, however, have required a different source base. Otherwise, I found much of interest in Bittner's intricate but deftly staged narrative argument. He treats wine making with more attention than...

... producers realized that a strange disease was affecting Douro s vines. According to their descriptions, vines weakened and dried, without any noticeable or identifiable cause. Oidium the fungus that ravaged European vineyards in the 1850s was not to blame. In fact, the new disease had completely different...

... publication, printed a piece titled Twilight of the Vintner, a brief but compelling synopsis of the problems facing winegrowers. Its author asserted that the greatest threat to vintners is not from the legion of vineyard enemies; fungi, insects, birds, small mammals, natural disasters, KEVIN D. GOLDBERG...

... Biondi Santi is a native of Tuscany and third-generation producer of Brunello wines. His grandfather iscredited with identifyingand propagating the Brunello clone, Sangiovese Grosso, on the family estate just south of Siena. His father refined and improved the production ofBrunello and kept the vineyard...

..., he paints a vivid picture of Los Angeles s early (and surprising) industry dominance as the city of vineyards, and the northerly pull exerted by the Gold Rush and concurrent influx of European vignerons like Agoston Harazsthy. Though winery owners then, as now, were largely wealthy and white...

... to pay only one-fifth of assessed land taxes.10 Until the interwar period colonate contracts usually included time limits for planting new vines. But the destruction of vineyards in Dalmatia by phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) from 1894 to 1918 forced landowners to ease up on this condition...

... approach to the subject, and shows how growers, research stations, universities, and governments around the world have responded to the deadly threat. Phylloxera was first noticed in France s vineyards in the mid-1860s and, with the notable exception of Portugal, it was only in this country...

..., unhappy producers, and, eventually, wide-scale rioting, especially in the high-production vineyards of the South. Another of Simpson s themes sorts out the important differences between the European and New World (the Americas, South Africa, and Australia) industry structures. The Old World industry...

... grain into these storage facilities. Falk also carefully describes and illustrates hops houses, vineyards and wineries, orchards, cider mills, tobacco barns, maple sugar houses, beehives, and apiaries. Falk s final chapter, entitled Powering the Farm, emphasizes how farmers in New York (and elsewhere...

... into these storage facilities. Falk also carefully describes and illustrates hops houses, vineyards and wineries, orchards, cider mills, tobacco barns, maple sugar houses, beehives, and apiaries. Falk s final chapter, entitled Powering the Farm, emphasizes how farmers in New York (and elsewhere) utilized...

..., on the family estate just south of Siena. His father refined and improved the production ofBrunello and kept the vineyard operating through theDepression andWorld War II. Franco's 438 ...

... (2). Focusing on the Italian Swiss Colony, Italian Vineyard, and E.&J. Gallo wineries, 154 2015 Book Reviews Cinotto weaves a deft tale of how immigrants from Italy s northern Piedmont region and their descendants expanded California winemaking into a massmarket business and helped turned wine...

...). Focusing on the Italian Swiss Colony, Italian Vineyard, and E.&J. Gallo wineries, 154 © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat . By Emily Eaton . Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press , 2013 . 208...

... use of the term-they are truck farms or small-scale agricultural operations thatproduce amixture of garden and field crops; theBainbridge Island "garden" includes an operating vineyard. The "gardeners" grow for their own table, but also to support themselves by marketing the surplus...

... relief by arguing that it is only just to let them convert unprofitable vineyards into real estate developments. If this is the only book you are going to read about the wine industry, buy a bottle of premium wine instead. It will have more structure and complexity while costing about the same...