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Description No US state can claim a longer history of experimenting with and promoting viticulture than Virginia - nor does any state's history demonstrate a more astounding record of initial failure and ultimate success. This volume presents a comprehensive record of the Virginia wine industry, from the earliest Spanish accounts to its astonishing rebirth in the modern era.
No state can claim a longer history of experimenting with and promoting viticulture than Virginia - nor does any state's history demonstrate a more astounding record of initial failure and ultimate success. Grape cultivation - for agriculture, horticultural curiosity, and wine production - has absorbed ambitious Virginians since April 1607, when a few casks of European wine washed ashore onto the dunes of Cape Henry in the company of a band of travel-weary English settlers. Virginia Wine: Four Centuries of Change presents a comprehensive record of the Virginia wine industry, from the earliest Spanish accounts describing Native American vineyards in 1570 through its astonishing rebirth in the modern era.
Andrew Painter chronicles the dynamic personalities, diverse places, and engrossing personal and political struggles that have established the Old Dominion as one of the nation's preeminent wine regions. Virginia's wine industry now accounts for nearly $1 billion in annual sales, with more than 275 wineries growing more than thirty varieties of grapes. The author discusses a multitude of wine-industry trends, events, secondary industries, and jobs that have revolved around the growing of grapes and the making and promotion of wine. This is the definitive look at Virginia's wine history and culture, in an agricultural and industrial sector that is itself unique within world commerce and society.
Distributed for George Mason University Press
Andrew A. Painter is an attorney in private practice.
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