Suggested Resources for Wine History Studies

Books

Adams, Leon D. The Wines of America. San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 1990.

Amerine, Maynard A., and Maynard A. Joslyn. Commerical Production of Table Wines. Berkeley: California Agricultural Experimental Station, College of Agriculture, University of California, 1940.
________. Table Wines: The Technology of Their Production. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951.

Amerine, Maynard A., and Vernon L. Singleton. Wine An Introduction. 2d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Amerine, Maynard A., and H. Phaff. A Bibliography of Publications by the Faculty, Staff, and Students of the University of California, 1876-1980, on Grapes, Wines, and Related Subjects. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Barron, Cheryll Aimee. Dreamers of the Valley of Plenty: A Portrait of the Napa Valley. New York: Scriber, 1995.

Brook, Stephen. Wine People. New York: Vendome Press, 2001.

Campbell, Christy. The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2005.

Carosso, Vincent P. The California Wine Industry: A Study of the Formative Years. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951.

Conaway, James. Napa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
________. The Far Side of Eden:: New Money, Old Land, and the Battle for Napa Valley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Deutschman, Alan. A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma. New York: Broadway, 2003.

Dolan, Paul with Thom Elkjer. True To Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution. Princeton: Bloomberg press, 2003.

Fisher, M.F.K. The Story of Wine In California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

Fuller, Robert C. Religion and Wine A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. Knoxville: Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1996.

Gabler, James. Wine Into Words: A History and Bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language. Baltimore: Bacchus Press, 2004.

Gallo, Ernest and Julio with Bruce Henderson, Ernest & Julio Gallo: Our Story. New York: Random House, 1994.

Geraci, Victor W. Salud: The Rise of Santa Barbara’s Wine Industry. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2004.
________. “Wine, Women, and Song,” In Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington, eds. Encyclopedia of Women in the American West, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2003.
________. “Vintibusiness: The History of the California Wine Industry 1769 to The Present,” in Gordon Morris Bakken, ed. California History: A Topical Approach, Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson Inc., 2002

Graham, Otis L. Jr., Sarah Harper Case, Victor W. Geraci, Susan Goldstein, Richard P. Ryba, and Beverly Schwartzberg. Aged In Oak: The Story of the Santa Barbara County Wine Industry. Santa Barbara, California, Wine Guild, 1998.

Guy, Kollen M. When Champagne Became French. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Haeger, John Winthrop. North American Pinot Noir. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Heimoff, Steve. A Wine Journey Along the RussianRiver. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Heyhoe, Kate and Stanley Hock. Harvesting The Dream: The Rags-to-Riches Tale of the Sutter Home Winery. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Hyams, E. Dionysus: A Social History of the Wine Vine, 2 nd ed., London: and Jackson, 1987.

Johnson, Hugh. Vintage: The Story of California Wine. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Jones, Frank. The Save Your Heart Wine Guide. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Jones, Idwal. Vines in the Sun: A Journey Through the California Vineyards. New York: Ballantine Books, 1949.

Kolpan, Steven. A Sense of Place: An Intimate Portrait of the Niebaum-Copola Winery and the NapaValley. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Kramer, Matt. Making Sense of California Wine. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992.
________. New California Wine: Making Sense of NapaValley, Sonoma, CentralCoast, and Beyond. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004.

Lapsley , James T. Bottled Poetry: Napa Winemaking From Prohibition to the Modern Era. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1996.

Lukacs, Paul. American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

Lynch, Kermit. Adventures On the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France. New York:Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988.

Matasat, Ann B. Women of Wine: The Rise of Women in the Global Wine Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

McCoy, Elin. The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste. New York: Ecco, 2005.

McGinty, Brian. Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998.

McGovern, Patrick. Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Vinticulture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Melville, John. Guide to California Wines. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955.

Mondavi, Robert with Paul Chutkow. Harvests of Joy: My Passion for Excellence. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.

Moulton, Kirby and James Lapsley. Successful Wine Marketing. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Press, 2001.

Muscatine, Doris, Maynard A. Amerine and Bob Thompson, eds. The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Osborne, Lawrence. The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through The Wine World. New York: North Point Press, 2004.

Pellechia, Thomas. Wine: The 8,000-Year-Old Story of the Wine Trade. New York: Thunder Mouth Press, 2006.

Phillips, Rod. A Short History of Wine. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

Pinney, Thomas. A History of Wine In America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989.
________. A History of Wine In America: From Prohibition to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Pintarich, Paul. The Boys Up North: Dick Erath and the Early Oregon Winemakers. Portland, Oregon: The Wyatt Group, 1997.

Prial, Frank. Decantations: Reflections on Wine by The New York Wine Critic Frank J. Prial. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Rorabaugh, W.J. The AlcoholicRepublic: An American Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Schoonmaker, Frank, and Tom Marvel. The Complete Book of Wine. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1934.

Schoonmaker, Frank. Frank Schoonmaker’s Encyclopedia of Wine. New York: Hastings House, 1964.

Smith, Sydney D. Grapes of Conflict. Pasadena, California: Hope House Publishing, 1987.

Stuller, Jay and Glen Martin. Through The Grapevine: The Real Story Behind America’s $8 Billion Wine Industry. New York: Harper-Collins West, 1994.

Sullivan, Charles L. Like Modern Edens: Winegrowing in Santa ClaraValley and Santa Cruz Mountains, 1798 - 1891. Cupertino, California: California History Center, 1982.

Sullivan, Charles. Napa Wine: A History from Mission Days to Present. San Francisco: The Wine Appreciation Guild, 1994.
________. A Companion to California Wine: An Encyclopedia of Wine and Winemaking from the Mission Period to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
________. Zinfandel: A History of A Grape and Its Wine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Swinchatt, Jonathan and David G. Howell. The Winemaker’s Dance: Exploring Terroir In the Napa Valley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Taber, George M. Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine. New York: Scribner, 2005.

Teiser, Ruth and Catherine Harroun. Winemaking in California. New York: McGrawHill, 1983.

Thach, Liz and Tim Matz. Wine: A Global Business. New York: Miranda Press, 2004.

Unwin, Tim. Wine and The Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Warner, Nicholas O. Spirits of America: Intoxication in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Weiss, Mike. A Very Good Year: The Journey of A California Wine from Vine to Table. New York: Gotham Books, 2005.

Winkler, A.J. et al., General Viticulture, rev. ed. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1974.

Woodward, W. Philip and Gregory S. Walter. Chalone: A Journey On the Wine Frontier. Sonoma, California: Carneros Press, 2000.

Journals

Amerine, Maynard A. "An Introduction to the Pre-Repeal History of Wine." Agricultural History 63 (April 1969): 259-268.
________. "The Napa Valley Grape and Wine Industry." Agricultural History 49 (Spring 1975): 289-291.

Berlow, Rosalind Kent. "The 'Disloyal' Grape: The Agrarian Crisis of Late Fourteenth-Century Burgundy." Agricultural History 56 (April 1982): 426-438.

Best, Michael R. "The Mystery of Vintners." Agricultural History 50 (April 1976): 362-376.

Bunce, Richard. "From California Grapes to California Wine: the Transformation of an Industry, 1963-1979." Contemporary Drug Problems (Spring 1981): 55-74.

Burnam, John C. "New Perspectives on the Prohibition Experiment of the 1920s." Journal of Social History 2 (Fall 1968): 51-68.

Cipolla, Carlo. "European Connoisseurs and California Wines," Agricultural History 49 (Spring 1975): 294-310.

Folwell, Raymond J. and Mark A. Castaldi. "Economies of Size in Wineries and Impacts of Pricing and Product Mix." Agribusiness: An International Journal 3 (Fall 1987): 281-292.

Geraci, Victor W. "The El Cajon, California, Raisin Industry: An Exercise in Gilded Age Capitalism." Southern California Quarterly 74 (Winter 1992): 329-354.
________. “The Family Wine-Farm: Vintibusiness Style.” Agricultural History 74:2 (Spring 2000): 419-432.
________. “Fermenting a Twenty-First Century California Wine Industry.” Journal of Agricultural History 78 (Fall 2004), 438-465.

McGee, Irving. “The Beginnings of California Winegrowing.” Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 29 (March 1947): 59-71.
________. “Early California Winegrowers.” California Magazine of the Pacific 37 (September 1947):34-37.
________. "Jean Paul Vignes, California's First Professional Winegrower." Agricultural History 22 (July 1948): 176-181.

Peters, Gary L. "Trends in California Viticulture." The Geographical Review 74 (October 1984): 463 (455-476).

Winkler, A.J. "The Effect of Climatic Regions." Wine Review 6 (1938): 14-16.
________. “Better Grapes for Wine.” American Journal of Enology 9 (1958): 202-203.
________.”Varietal Grapes in the Central Coast.” American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 15 (1964): 204-205.

Internet Resources
The Wine Institute
Wine Spectator Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times
University of California at Davis
Sonoma County Wine Library