Author: Thomas Pinney
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1597144266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California’s wine trade in the once isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! With incisive analysis and a touch of dry humor, The City of Vines chronicles winemaking in Los Angeles from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century through its decline in the 1950s. Thomas Pinney returns the megalopolis to the prickly pear-studded lands upon which Mission grapes grew for the production of claret, port, sherry, angelica, and hock. From these rural beginnings Pinney reconstructs the entire course of winemaking in a sweeping narrative, punctuated by accounts of particular enterprises including Anaheim’s foundation as a German winemaking settlement and the undertakings of vintners scrambling for market dominance. Yet Pinney also shows Los Angeles’s wine industry to be beholden to the forces that shaped all California under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States: colonial expansion dependent on labor of indigenous peoples; the Gold Rush population boom; transcontinental railroads; rapid urbanization; and Prohibition. This previously untold story uncovers an era when California wine meant Los Angeles wine, and reveals the lasting ways in which the wine industry shaped the nascent metropolis.
Author: Stuart Douglass Byles
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-11-11
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1614238871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The renowned California wine industry, famous for northern vintages, actually was born near El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Spanish missionaries harvested the first vintage in 1782 at Mission San Juan Capistrano and then cultivated enormous vineyards at Mission San Gabriel. Their replanted vine-cuttings took root on Jose Maria Verdugo's 1784 Spanish land grant in what became Glendale. Jean Louis Vignes brought a Bordeaux winemaking experience to LA in 1831 and initiated wine trade with San Francisco. By 1848, Los Angeles contained one hundred vineyards. Author Stuart Douglass Byles traces the little-known LA wine tradition through vintners of the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, Anaheim and Rancho Cucamonga, Temecula Valley and Malibu and details the San Antonio Winery heritage, the last one standing from old Los Angeles days.
Author: Herbert Boyton Leggett
Publisher:
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frances Dinkelspiel
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1250033225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Noted California historian rips the oh-so-laid-back label off the California wine trade to show the violent and obsessive world underneath
Author: California Board of State Commissioners
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-14
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9780656611607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Vineyards of Southern Callifornia, 1893: Being the Report of E. C. Bichowsky, Commissioner for the Los Angeles District, to the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners of California The canvass of the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego was undertaken by the Board of State Viti cultural Commissioners, to ascertain, as nearly as possible, the present acreage in vines in those counties; especially as the Anaheim disease has wrought such damage in many sections of that portion of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.