- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Texas Tech University Press; 1 edition (Feb 15 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0896727386
- ISBN-13: 978-0896727380
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 20.6 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
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With wine now made in all fifty states, the gift of the gods is on the way to becoming a national drink. But each state has unique growing situations, and it’s not yet certain where truly great American wine will be produced. In The Wineslinger Chronicles, Russ Kane tells the tale of Texas wine in an educational, friendly style. . . . So sit back and enjoy both Texas wines and Kane’s book. —George M. Taber, author of Judgment of Paris
Doc Russ is the kind of guy who can mix blues, barbecue, and Barbera in a truly Texan way, and as he writes I can smell the mesquite smoke, hear the wailing guitar and chew the High Plains ripe red fruit. —Oz Clarke, author of Pocket Wine Book and 250 Best Wines Wine Buying Guide
Every upcoming wine region needs a champion, and Russ Kane, relentless in seeking out and understanding what Texas wine has to offer, appears up to the task. —Alice Feiring, author of Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally
On his blog, VintageTexas.com, and now in The Wineslinger Chronicles, Russ Kane is our faithful guide across the wild frontier of Texas wine. . . . Settle by the campfire, pour yourself a Texas-sized glass, and let Ol’ Russ tell you a story. —Dave McIntyre, Washington Post wine columnist and co-founder of DrinkLocalWine.com
Russ Kane helps to bring Texas wine to the forefront of the regional wine movement with his knowledgeable criticism, interesting stories, and top-flight commentary. —Jeff Siegel, co-founder, DrinkLocalWine.com
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In his pursuit of Texas terroir, the sense of place manifest in Texas wine country’s sun-baked soils, variable climate, and human intervention, Russell Kane has traveled the state tasting wine, interviewing the major players in Texas wine culture, and reflecting on the state’s extraordinary history and enterprising peoples. Here is the total immersion experience. Texas Wineslinger, the moniker now synonymous with Kane, sprouted from a blog of an Australian wine writer after Kane compared the big red wines that originate from the red sand and porous limestone common to both the Texas High Plains and Australia’s Coonawarra wine region. Kane’s reflections include explorations of Spanish missionary life and the sacramental wine made from Texas’s first vineyard as well as the love for grapes and wine brought subsequently by German and Italian immigrants from their homelands. Kane also relates stories of the modern-day growers and entrepreneurs who overcame the lingering effects of temperance and prohibition—forces that failed to eradicate Texas’s destiny as an emerging wine-producing region. A postscript, “A Winegrower’s Prayer,” serves as a poignant reminder of the challenges that weigh heavy on those still defining the terroir of Texas’s wine frontier.
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Must Read for Wine Lovers, Texas Wine Lovers, and Texas History Buffs, April 30 2012
By Terry Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Wineslinger Chronicles: Texas on the Vine (Hardcover)
If you are a wine lover, then this delightful read is a must. You will be delighted to learn about how the Texas wine industry has evolved from its beginnings in the 16th Century to today, when it is approaching 300 wineries, many of which are producing world class wines. I mention Texas history because the book is written in a very innovative format. It's not a "wine geeky" type of book, but rather it presents the history of the Texas wine industry, which parallels the colorful history of the great state of Texas.Presented in a series of stories centered at wineries and the interesting collection of folks who founded them, the story begins with the author sharing an imaginary glass of wine and conversation with a friar from an early Texas Spanish mission, then progresses to the 19th century with the founding of the oldest continuously operating winery in Texas, Val Verde Winery in Del Rio, which was founded in the late 1800s by an Italian immigrant, and survived prohibition by selling wines for sacramental and medicinal purposes. The trail then jumps to the 1970s when the modern Texas wine industry began in earnest. The book describes the early successes, the failures, the loss of vineyards to devasting Pierce's disease, the struggle to find the right grapes for the Texas terroir, the innovations, the heartbreaks, the research, the search for the industry's early roots - all told in a series of fascinating chronicles. It's a great read, even if you're not a serious wine afficanado. I read the book in one rainy weekend that had originally been set aside for planting my vegetable garden. The rain helped enrich the soil for the next weekend, and the book enriched me.
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