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Cucamonga Valley wine : the lost empire of American winemaking /
- Title
- Cucamonga Valley wine : the lost empire of American winemaking / George M. Walker & John Peragine.
- Author
- Walker, George M.,
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : American Palate, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Additional Authors
- Peragine, John,
- Description
- 126 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The Cucamonga Valley was once America's largest wine-producing region, crafting quality vintages decades before Napa and Sonoma. Secondo Guasti, an ambitious and enterprising Italian immigrant, established the region's first vineyard in 1901, and others soon followed. Wineries like the Vai Brothers, Padre, Galleano, Brookside and more made the valley the epicenter of a burgeoning industry. Not even Prohibition could halt production. While domestic breweries and distilleries shuttered, Cucamonga's brandy and sherry continued to be legally made for culinary and medicinal purposes. Yet by the late 1970s, harvests had dwindled and vineyards vanished. Urbanization, vine disease and property taxes effectively ended production. Today, local vintners and wine enthusiasts are reviving the region's proud heritage. Authors George M. Walker and John Peragine uncork a legacy too delectable to die.
- Subjects
- Wine and wine making
- Wineries
- California
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional
- Wineries > History
- Wine and wine making > California > History
- History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "The roots of American wine production were planted in Cucamonga"--Page [4] of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography (pages [125]-126).
- Contents
- Mission wine -- Secondo Guasti: father of wine in Cucamonga -- The woes of prohibition -- Accomazzo: Cucamonga Winery -- Fontaine Coragliotti: the Fountain Winery -- Biane Family: Brookside Winery -- Mira Loma: Galleano Winery -- Ellena Brothers: Regina Winery -- The revitalization.
- ISBN
- 9781625859112
- 1625859112
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library