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Tangled vines : greed, murder, obsession, and an arsonist in the vineyards of California / Frances Dinkelspiel.

Summary:

Tracing the history of California's viticulture and how passion for the "the elixir of the gods" has driven people to extremes, a narrative exposes the violent and obsessive world of the California wine trade.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250113894
ISBN: 125011389X
Physical Description: xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimile ; 21 cm
Edition: First St. Martin's Griffin Edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Griffin, 2016.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-289) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Major characters -- Map of Rancho Cucamonga -- Prologue: A fire is set -- Introduction -- Destruction. The mystery of wine ; All is lost ; The wrecked remains ; A soggy, charred mess ; Joe Sausalito -- Invention. The beginning of Rancho Cucamonga ; Wine fever ; Blood on the land -- Fabrication. Sausalito cellars ; For the love of wine ; Wine fraud -- Expansion. The struggle for recognition ; The era of the great San Francisco wine houses ; The wine war ; Earthquake and fire -- Deception. Theft and deception ; Dismay ; The trap is set ; Delay -- Redemption. Legacy -- Epilogue -- Appendix: History of the ownership of Cucamonga Vineyard.