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Over the past three decades, a wine revolution has been taking place across the United States. There are now more than 7,000 American wine producers—up from 440 in 1970—and the best bottles are every bit as good as the finest wines of Europe. American Wine is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference on the wines, wineries, and winemakers of America. Written by world-renowned wine author Jancis Robinson and U.S. wine expert Linda Murphy, this book is the natural companion to the international bestseller, The World Atlas of Wine. More than 200 breathtaking photographs, profiles of key personalities, and informational graphics bring to life the vitality of American wine culture and 54 detailed full-color maps locate key regions, wineries, and vineyards. Organized by geographical region, American Wine concentrates on areas such as California, Oregon, and Washington that produce the best-known wines, and ventures across the country to introduce gems such as racy Rieslings from Michigan and New York, Bordeaux-style wines from Virginia, bright-fruited Tempranillo from Texas and southern Oregon, and characterful Nortons from the Midwest.
- Sales Rank: #454383 in Books
- Brand: Ca Princeton Fulfillment
- Model: PR9780520273214
- Published on: 2012-12-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.50" h x .90" w x 9.00" l, 1.44 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
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What Critics Say About Jancis Robinson
"Because of her training, her experience and her gifts as a taster and writer, Ms Robinson is probably the best-qualified person who has ever written about wine." --Paul Levy, Wall Street Journal.
"The woman who makes the wine world gulp when she speaks....as unpretentious as Beaujolais Nouveau." --Jerry Shriver, USA Today.
"One of the things Jancis taught me about wine was, lighten up!" --Jay McInerney, New York Times.
"Jancis writes about wine with authority but without a trace of pretension - in fact, often humor – and with a grace that makes it look easy despite all the effort that obviously goes into her work." --Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post.
"England’s finest wine writer - gifted with her prose, thorough in her analytical skills, and always looking for a good story, her opinion should be considered seriously, and anyone interested in fine wine ought to subscribe to her valuable tasting research and commentaries. --Robert Park, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition.
"The Julia Child of wine: authoritative, accessible and occasionally fun... You'd like her as a teacher." --Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday.
"In the world of wine Jancis Robinson...is to words what Ferrari is to cars!" --Matt Skinner, Thirsty Work.
Some Tips on Matching Wine and Food, by Jancis Robinson
General Tips
With its relatively low alcoholic strength, appetizing acidity and lack of sickly artificial flavours, wine is the perfect accompaniment to food. Am I kidding myself that a well-chosen wine makes food taste better? Surely not...
The most important rule about food and wine matching is that there are no rules. You can drink any wine at all with any food - even red wine with fish! - and the world will continue to revolve. Anyone who thinks worse of you for serving the 'wrong' wine is stuffy, prejudiced and probably ill-informed. There are, however, some very simple guidelines for getting the most out of particular foods and bottles.
The single most important aspect of a wine for food matching is not color but body or weight (which corresponds closely with alcoholic strength).
The second most important aspects are tannins for reds and sweetness for whites.
Try to match a wine's body to the power of the strongest ingredient in the food. Serve delicate-flavored foods such as simple white fish or poached chicken with lighter bodied wines and stronger, more robust foods such as grilled tuna with spiced lentils or osso buco with full-bodied wines. Many white wines will do jobs which are conventionally regarded as red wine jobs, and vice versa.
A tannic wine such as one made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo and most Portuguese reds, can taste softer when served with chewy foods, notably unsauced red meat. (Sauces are almost invariably more powerful than what they are saucing and are usually a better guide to the ideal wine accompaniment.)
All wines taste horribly acid if served with sweet food, unless they are sweeter than the food itself - which seriously limits the choice of wines to be served with most sweet courses to wines such as Vouvray moelleux, Alsace SGN, Sauternes, German Trockenbeerenauslese and Beerenauslese and some sweet sherries. It also makes wine purists wary of sweet relishes. Very acid foods such as citrus fruits and vinegar can do funny things to seriously fine, perfectly balanced wine, but can flatter a slightly acid wine (from a particularly cool climate or year) by making it taste less sour. Similarly, freshly ground black pepper might distort our impression of a complex, venerable wine but acts as a sensitizing agent on most palates and flatters young, light wines by making them taste fuller and richer.
Difficult Foods for Wine
There are very few foods that destroy wine, but very hot spices tend to stun the taste buds so that you could still smell a wine but would find it impossible to experience its dimensions because the palate's sensory equipment is ablaze. Globe artichokes and, to a lesser extent, asparagus tend to make wine taste oddly metallic, and dense chocolate is so sweet and so mouth-coating that it too can be difficult (but not impossible) to match with wine. A far greater enemy to wine than any food, however, is toothpaste. Also, don't forget how wine styles can be manipulated by care with serving temperatures.
The increasing importance of vegetables and salads has had its own sunny influence on food and wine matching. Their direct flavors can seem better suited for New World wines than the dusty complexity of many an Old World classic.
Cooking with Wine
There is a school of thought that any wine used in cooking should be top quality and/or of the same region as the dish. As a mean Northerner, I find this hard to accept, particularly as so little research has been done on exactly what happens to wine when you cook with it. I am sure that if the wine in the dish (as in steeped strawberries, for example) is never heated, then it is worth choosing one that tastes as delicious as you can afford. If you want to reduce a sauce using wine, however, I would have thought you wanted one with as much body as possible - and that the wine's components may go through so many transformations that the initial flavor could not possibly be preserved. More research, please! Meanwhile, in our household we will continue to see cooking as a particularly satisfying way of using up wine leftovers.
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"Glorious. . . . "American Wine" captures all the romance and allure of viniculture from Florida to Hawaii."--Angela Matano"Campus Circle" (04/02/2013)
Glorious. . . . "American Wine" captures all the romance and allure of viniculture from Florida to Hawaii. --Angela Matano"Campus Circle" (04/02/2013)"
From the Inside Flap
"No other book offers such a panoramic view of the American wine scene or is as thorough, balanced, and well-informed." —Doug Frost, Master of Wine and Master Sommelier
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
A Comprehensive Guide
By JS
The companion volume to World Atlas of Wine, American Wine focuses solely on the wine-producing regions of the United States, from the often-visited and world-renowned Napa Valley to the smaller AVA's found across America, including those in Michigan and New York.
American Wine includes helpful maps, an overview of the grapes grown in the United States, how wineries were founded decades -- if not hundreds of years -- ago, and provides an abundance of information about wine-making techniques within each region. The majority of the book focuses on the California wine regions of Napa Valley, Sonoma County, and the Central Valley, with breakdowns by AVA; this is impressive since Napa Valley has sixteen sub-AVA's, such as Calistoga, Stag's Leap, and the (relatively) new Atlas Peak. Each AVA has a list of notable wineries, a helpful map, and details about the soil, temperature, and wine produced.
Despite the obvious attention to detail, this book can still be enjoyed and utilized by the casual wine-lover and tourist for the maps, background information, and suggestions about wineries. It truly shines, though, as an an exceptional book designed for serious wine-lovers and travelers who are looking for a comprehensive guide to American wineries and wine. This is a fantastic work that should be part of any wine library.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Good, but not as good I expected
By LSK
It's natural to think of this book as a more regionally detailed version of "The World Atlas of Wine," but that is true only in some respects. The main advantage of the book is longer descriptions of formerly obscure or minor areas that get only a sentence or two in "TWAoW," for me most notably Colorado and the southwestern states as well as oddities like Hawaii.
However, for long-established areas such as the main California AVAs, you won't learn much new about the growing conditions, grapes, and recent trends. Instead, the higher coverage page count relative to TWAoW is taken up by historical facts, profiles of specific wineries (sometimes whose special significance isn't all that clear), pictures, and a larger font. I had hoped for more in-depth technical detail.
Otherwise, much will be familiar to readers of TWAoW. The maps are in the same format and the writing has some of the same admirable clarity and insouciance. One difference is that the introductory chapter is not a comprehensive description of winemaking and the wine experience but rather a shorter and more focused discussion of historical, legal, and winemaking issues specific to the U.S.
This is by no means a bad or uninteresting book and it is a useful complement to TWAoW because of its coverage of areas that do not have a worldwide reputation. But people who already know a fair amount about winemaking in the U.S. should be aware of its limitations.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
American Wine is a treasure
By Sharon Kapnick
It's no secret that wine is In in the U.S. In 2011 the U.S. became the No. 1 wine-consuming country. And it's now the fourth-largest wine-producing country, having expanded exponentially from 440 wineries in 1970 to 7,345 in 2012.
So it's very good news indeed that at last there is a book that does the wines made in the U.S.--in all 50 states, that is--justice. American Wine: The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wineries of the United States is the book about American wines that this wine lover has long been waiting for. As the publisher says, it's the "first comprehensive and authoritative reference to the wines, wineries and winemakers" of the entire U.S. While American Wine of course covers the Big Three of the West-California, Washington and Oregon-and the Big One of the East-New York-about a third of the 278-page book is devoted to the other 46 states, the states many of us are eager to know more about.
The authors have impeccable credentials. Jancis Robinson has been called the Julia Child of Wine. Robert M. Parker Jr.'s Wine Advocate said she is "perhaps the most gifted of all wine writers writing today." And she's been voted the Wine Writers' Wine Writer by her peers. She's a member of Britain's Royal Household Wine Committee, which chooses the wines that the Queen serves her guests. And she's a prolific author, responsible for several multi-award-winning wine reference books: she edited The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-authored The World Atlas of Wine and Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours. U.S. wine expert Linda Murphy edited the San Francisco Chronicle's wine section-she won two awards from the James Beard Foundation there-and was the managing editor of the New York Times wine website. She contributes to [...] and Decanter.
American Wine is organized geographically: broad sections of the U.S. are broken down into states, regions within states, American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) and so on. It covers geography, geology, terroirs, founding fathers and other history (including Prohibition and its lingering effects), current personalities, producers and more. You'll learn how winemaking evolved in America and where it's heading. There are short snapshots of all major growing regions and their key wineries, including Trailblazers (historic wineries), Steady Hands (consistently reliable brands), Superstars (the most desirable wines) and Ones to Watch (up-and-coming and innovative producers). Also included are 54 maps, more than 200 photographs and informational graphics.
Here's a sampling of interesting information:
● FLORIDA: French Hugenots made wine in the mid-1500s from the native Scuppernong grape.
● OHIO: The first commercially successful winery in the U.S. was established in Cincinnati in the mid-1800s by banker Nicholas Longworth. His specialty: sparkling wines from the native Catawba grape. By 1860, Ohio led the nation in wine production.
● NEW YORK: Founded in 1839, Brotherhood Winery in the Hudson River Valley is the oldest continously operating winery in the U.S.
● MISSOURI: The first AVA was established in 1980-in Augusta, Missouri.
● NORTH DAKOTA: In 2002 Pointe of View Winery made the state the 50th in the U.S. to have a commercial winery.
● MINNESOTA: Frontenac (red superstar in the Midwest and New England), La Crescent (white reminiscent of floral Riesling) and Marquette (not unlike Frontenac) grapes, bred at the University of Minnesota, can survive temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees.
● HAWAII: The most popular wines of Tedeschi Vineyards are Maui Blanc, a still pineapple wine, and Maui Splash, a pineapple wine with passion fruit essence.
● CALIFORNIA: 1) If it were a country, California would rank fourth in wine production, after France, Italy and Spain. 2) While the Napa Valley produces only 4% of the state's wine, it accounts for 25% of its wine sales revenue.
Bottom Line: An informative, eminently browsable, entertaining, handsome reference book that's a must-have for serious American wine lovers who are book lovers.
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