Over a barrel
Subtitle: the rise and fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company
By: Thomas Pellechia
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781438455495
Subjects: Taylor Wine Company; Wine industry; History
Description: "In 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper's son, started a commercial grape juice company in New York's Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was firmly established. Walter Taylor's three sons carefully guided the company through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery in the Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered. Drawing on archival research as well as interviews with many of the principal players, Thomas Pellechia skillfully traces the economic dynamism of the Finger Lakes wine region, the passion and ingenuity of the Taylor family, and the shortsighted corporate takeover scenario that took down a once-proud American family company. In addition to providing important lessons for business innovators, Over a Barrel is a cautionary tale for a wine region that is repeating its formative industry"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- ch. One; title: Arrivals -- -- ch. Two; title: War And Prohibition -- -- ch. Three; title: Rebirth -- -- ch. Four; title: The Rise -- -- ch. Five; title: The Competition -- -- ch. Six; title: Successful Choices --; title: Photo Gallery Follows -- -- ch. Seven; title: Expansion -- -- ch. Eight; title: Offspring -- -- ch. Nine; title: Trouble Ahead -- -- ch. Ten; title: The Big Leagues -- -- ch. Eleven; title: Fraying -- -- ch. Twelve; title: Unraveling -- -- ch. Thirteen; title: The Fall.