{"product_id":"the-university-of-californiasotheby-book-of-california-wine","title":"The University of California\/Sotheby Book of California Wine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles  and all that  than I can remember living before I breathed.\"  With this remarkable sentence  M.F.K. Fisher opens this abundant book  in which forty-four of the most knowledgeable winemakers and wine authorities explore the achievement of California wine from the Mission days to the present. Fishers reminiscence on the honest wines she has enjoyed over seven decades is followed by an astute essay by the noted wine critic Hugh Johnson showing how the new style of California winemaking has changed the worlds way of thinking about California wineand Californias way of thinking about itself. In other original essays eight winemakers  several historians and wine critics  a gifted cook  a doctor  a plant geneticist  corkscrew and label collectors  and a score of other experts discuss the many dimensions of California wine  give guidance on tasting  and evaluate the wine and wineries.  This lavishly produced volume was set on a Mergenthaler Linotron 202  using a Mergenthaler digital adaptation of Plantin. The jacket and endpapers were printed by Max Strassman  Mastercraft Press  San Francisco  on Thistle Multicolor  a paper manufactured for and distributed by Process Materials Corporation  Rutherford  New Jersey. The book was printed and bound by Kingsport Press  and Arcata Graphics Company  Kingsport  Tennesee. Printing was by offset lithography on a six-color web-fed press. Text paper stock  milled for this book  is Penn Text Laid  70 pound weight  manufactured by the Penn Tech Mill  Johnsonburg. The book is bound in Buntgewebe 300 binding cloth  made by Vereinigte Goppinger Bamberger Kaliko GmbH of Bamberg  Germany. Book design is by Ernest Born  who drew the large roman numbers in chapter headings and several items of ornamental and geometric character that are found scattered throughout the volume  sometimes in association with incidental illustrations and supportive technical captions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945949360181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520050851","price":29.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520050853_3ecefa89-271f-4065-9ad9-58b131ea616b.jpg?v=1770153956","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-university-of-californiasotheby-book-of-california-wine","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}