Napa at last light
Subtitle: America's Eden in an age of calamity
By: James Conaway
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781501128455
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Wine and wine making; Wine industry; History
Other titles: America's Eden in an age of calamity
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing; title: II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow; title: III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival; title: IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame; title: V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy; title: VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown; title: VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited.