Paul Lukacs
The Great Wines of America
The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards, and Vintages
The stories behind America’s finest wines, and the people and places that have made them so admired today.
American wine—once an object of ridicule—now holds its own against the world’s best. But which wines are America’s finest? Who makes them? In The Great Wines of America, Paul Lukacs selects forty wines that have helped elevate American wine to unprecedented heights. Each chapter contains the specific wine’s history, the vintner’s vision for it, a map of its terroir, and a list of successful vintages.
“Mr. Lukacs’s list could easily have resulted in a familiar, ho-hum rendition of greatest hits, but he refuses to settle for that. Instead, he offers a group of wines that is fiercely individual, in which distinctiveness is as important as critical approval.”—Eric Asimov, New York Times
“Lukacs, who is rapidly becoming our leading expert on domestic wine, explains with engaging prose how these wines, and the people behind them, have been essential to the coming of age of American wine.”—Michael Apstein, Boston Globe
Paul Lukacs writes regularly about wine for the Washington Times and is chair of the English department at Loyola College in Maryland. He lives in Baltimore.
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