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by Steve Heimoff
Available
at Amazon.com
 From
the author of one of our favorite wine books
of recent years, A
Wine Journey Along the Russian River,
comes this new book. New Classic Winemakers
of California: Conversations with Steve
Heimoff is a collection of interviews
with winemakers and grape growers from across
California.
As we all must know by now, wine is personal.
Not just in our own individual tasting moments,
but as a reflection of the people who make
it. And New Classic Winemakers is a glimpse
into the histories and experiences of the
people who make the wine we drink. Beyond
that, many of the people interviewed here
are the people who had a hand in shaping
the landscape of California wine over the
last thirty years or so.
Heimoff was inspired by Robert Benson's
Great Winemakers of California, published
in 1977 when the California wine industry
was on the cusp of tremendous growth and
increasing importance in the wine world.
Heimoff comes in three decades later, when
California wine is a huge business, land
prices have soared and a new generation
of wineries and winemakers are taking the
reigns and facing new issues and challenges.
The interviews are chatty and personal,
rather than technical, making the book eminently
readable. A wide range of topics are touched
upon, here and there, including the changing
role of women as winemakers, riper wine
styles, global warming, "cult"
wines, wine critics, and much more.
New Classic Winemakers is a fun
read - with nearly thirty interviews that
average about eight pages each, in question
and answer format. And each one contains
something surprising or funny or just plain
interesting.
New Classic Winemakers of California:
Conversations with Steve Heimoffby Steve Heimoff
Hardcover: 292 pages
Publisher: University of California Press
1 edition (November 5, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520247221 ISBN-13: 978-0520247222
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