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When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country - Hardcover
Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California's legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines - and in many cases still do - turned to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919, three months after one of the greatest California grape harvests of all time, violence and chaos descended on Northern California. Federal agents spilled thousands of gallons of wine in the rivers and creeks, gun battles erupted on dark country roads, and local law enforcement officers, sympathetic to their winemaking neighbors, found ways to run circles around the intruding authorities. For the state's winemaking families - many of them immigrants from Italy - surviving Prohibition meant facing impossible decisions, whether to give up the idyllic way of life their families had known for generations, or break the law to enable their wine businesses and their livelihood to survive. Including moments of both desperation and joy, Sosnowski tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people fought to protect to a beautiful and timeless culture in the lovely hills and valleys of now-celebrated wine country.
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'Sosnowski offers a gripping account of Federal agents looking to seize wine and the winemakers who hid their vintages in ingenious ways. It's also a fascinating look at the birth of some of the California wine dynasties that exist to this day.' - Wine Enthusiast Magazine
'A cool history book for fans of wine and local lore.' - The San Francisco Examiner
'A rollicking story...It'll keep you awake on your towel.' - The Miami Herald
'Sosnowski is a compelling historian...this book will change the way you look at their wines, and you may find yourself tasting them differently knowing what that land and its people have been through.' - San Francisco Chronicle
'Sosnowski's fascinating account of how Napa and Sonoma winemakers struggled to survive during the national insanity known as Prohibition fills a giant hole in the history of American wine. Wine lovers everywhere should thank her for tracking down survivors, many now in their 90s, who provided rich accounts of what it was like to live through that terrible nightmare. A tale well told, Sosnowski has a fine touch.' - George M. Taber, bestselling author of Judgment of Paris
'Rich, moving and evocative, Sosnowski's exquisite writing brings to life a chapter of American history that has largely been forgotten. Anyone who enjoys California's legendary wines will absolutely adore When the Rivers Ran Red. A book to be savored, word by word. Were this a great bottle of wine, it would deserve 5 stars out of 4.' - Don and Petie Kladstrup, bestselling authors of Wine& War and Champagne
'Sosnowski's When the Rivers Ran Red will defeat the misconception that fine California wine represents a recent phenomenon. This fast paced, crisply written account of California winemakers' battle to survive Prohibition breathes new life into this precious American tradition and shows in gripping detail how deep these vines' roots run in the soils of lovely Napa and Sonoma Valleys.' - William Echikson, author of Noble Rot
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'Sosnowski offers a gripping account of Federal agents looking to seize wine and the winemakers who hid their vintages in ingenious ways. It's also a fascinating look at the birth of some of the California wine dynasties that exist to this day.' - Wine Enthusiast Magazine
'A cool history book for fans of wine and local lore.' - The San Francisco Examiner
'A rollicking story...It'll keep you awake on your towel.' - The Miami Herald
'Sosnowski is a compelling historian...this book will change the way you look at their wines, and you may find yourself tasting them differently knowing what that land and its people have been through.' - San Francisco Chronicle
'Sosnowski's fascinating account of how Napa and Sonoma winemakers struggled to survive during the national insanity known as Prohibition fills a giant hole in the history of American wine. Wine lovers everywhere should thank her for tracking down survivors, many now in their 90s, who provided rich accounts of what it was like to live through that terrible nightmare. A tale well told, Sosnowski has a fine touch.' - George M. Taber, bestselling author of Judgment of Paris
'Rich, moving and evocative, Sosnowski's exquisite writing brings to life a chapter of American history that has largely been forgotten. Anyone who enjoys California's legendary wines will absolutely adore When the Rivers Ran Red. A book to be savored, word by word. Were this a great bottle of wine, it would deserve 5 stars out of 4.' - Don and Petie Kladstrup, bestselling authors of Wine& War and Champagne
'Sosnowski's When the Rivers Ran Red will defeat the misconception that fine California wine represents a recent phenomenon. This fast paced, crisply written account of California winemakers' battle to survive Prohibition breathes new life into this precious American tradition and shows in gripping detail how deep these vines' roots run in the soils of lovely Napa and Sonoma Valleys.' - William Echikson, author of Noble Rot
How the California winemakers battled Prohibition, and triumphed against all odds
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2009
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