Once Upon A Vine: The Secret Stories of California's Artisan Wineries

Once Upon A Vine: The Secret Stories of California's Artisan Wineries offers a different, very user-friendly way for anyone to enjoy wine. Its 24 stories invite wine down off its pedestal to sit beside you for a good read. The story behind a winery is every wine's secret ingredient, the one people fall in love with and remember. It is the story that brings the wine to life, not its award count, or the idea it tastes like essence of fig. Every time you pour a glass of wine, you pour a bit of that story too. During nearly 20 years of traveling the California wine country, Judy C. Reynolds has interviewed hundreds of winemakers. Here, 24 share their most intimate life sagas ... Lane Tanner, who Fate and wine legend André Tchelistcheff had to literally shove through the cellar door... Jess Madrigral whose father began one of Napa's most successful family wineries with just a pair of pruning shears ... Tony Peju, who had to nearly break down the cellar door before the world would allow him to forge his path to wine ... Not a wine tasting guide, not a tour book, not a wine education course, Once Upon A Vine: The Secret Stories of California's Artisan Winemakers will delight both connoisseurs and the just curious. It uncorks true life stories, sagas about choices made, luck, hope and dreams realized that will inspire the reader and clarify choices at the wine shop. When you know a winery's secret story, you'll always remember the wine.