A man and his mountain
Subtitle: the everyman who created Kendall-Jackson and became America's greatest wine entrepreneur
By: Edward Humes
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781610392853
Subjects: Businessmen; Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates (Firm); Wine and wine making; Vintners; Biography; History
Description: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest selling brand of premium wines in the U.S. Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneering entrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling slice of history, daring, innovation, feuds, intrigue, talent, mystique, contrarianism, and luck, offering a unique window on the elegant, adventurous, and cut-throat worlds of Jackson's two passions: wine and horseracing. Time after time his decisions would be ignored, derided, then finally envied and imitated, as whole industries watched him become a billionaire and tried to keep up. He reinvented himself at mid-life, and became founder and CEO of Kendall-Jackson. The empire he constructed endures and thrives even after his death in 2011. In A Man and His Mountain, Edward Humes brings us the no-holds barred tale of the brilliant, infuriating, successful man who seemed to win more than his share by staying far ahead of the pack"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Catch Me If You Can; title: Diving In; title: First Pour : Glut and Stuck; title: The Street Smart Farm Boy; title: The Oyster Bar and Nancy's Wine; title: Joe Goodguy of the Berkeley PD; title: Bending and Blending; title: The New King of Wine Country Meets His Match; title: Birth of a Terroirist; title: VRU and the Hard "C"; title: Gallo, Gall, Greens and Growth : Jess Jackson at War; title: Family Man, Part II, and the Retirement That Didn't Stick; title: Bluegrass Hurricane : Mr Jackson's Wild Ride; title: The Vineyard by the Owl House.