The Great Wines of America: The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards, and Vintages [Paperback]

American wineonce an object of ridiculenow holds its own against the world's best. But which wines are America's finest? Who makes them? InThe stories behind America's finest wines, and the people and places that have made them so admired today. 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. Mr. Lukacss 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.