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I recently published Creating World Class Red Wine, a top down study of how the finest wines in the world are made.
Years ago, I read everything (quality) about wine in the English language. The Vines of San Lorenzo is still one of my favorite wine books. It is a biography of Angelo Gaja, which includes a bit of Italian history, and how the wine industry in that country evolved out of rather poor quality wine in general into the remarkable wines that are made there today. Gaja is a pioneer. In the 1970's, when everyone around him thought he was nuts for endeavoring to change the way they grew grapes and made wine--he persisted anyway.
I love the scene in the book where his father?, uncle? walks by a vineyard block shaking his head because Angelo has planted it in that snotty French grape Cabernet Sauvignon. "Angelo, what can we do about him?" He shakes his head while walking home to his little hut where he lives in poverty. Angelo Gaja is now one of the most celebrated Italian winemakers. Read this book.