The vineyard
By: Idwal Jones ; foreword by Robert Mondavi.
Series: California fiction; California fiction (Series)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Wine and wine making -- Fiction.; Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Description: Set in the Napa Valley at the turn of the century, this novel beautifully evokes the characters' love of the land and the rhythms of life lived close to the earth and its seasons. Alda Pendle is the daughter of a viticulturist who has taught her his craft. When he dies, leaving her without property, her skills make her indispensable to the solitary owner of one of the old vineyards in the valley. The novel provides a vivid history of winemaking in California to the Prohibition era.

A new foreword by vintner Robert Mondavi places the novel in the context of the history of winemaking in California.