A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today.Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. At a time when the vineyards of France were being ravaged by phylloxera, this grape seemed to promise a bright future for a truly American brand of wine-making, earthy and wild. And then Norton all but vanished. What happened? The narrative begins more than a hundred years before California wines were thought to have put America on the map as a wine-making nation and weaves together the lives of a fascinating cast of renegades. We encounter the suicidal Dr. Daniel Norton, tinkering in his experimental garden in 1820s Richmond, Virginia. Half on purpose...
Ирина, я просто в восторге!!! Даже, наверное, это я слабо выразилась. Я ее всю естественно не читала, но то, что я отрывками прочитала, и просмотрела, мне понравилось ужасно. Если работу оценят на пять, я вам вышлю еще 2000 рублей. (1000 за то, что она (уже) нравится мне, и 1000 за огромный труд.) Спасибо еще раз!!!