By Doug Shafer
Set opposed to the backdrop of Napa Valley’s transformation from a rural backwater within the Seventies via its emergence at the present time as one of many best wine areas on the earth, the e-book starts with the winery’s shaky commence and takes the reader during the father and son’s ongoing battles opposed to killer insects, cellar mess ups, neighborhood politics, altering customer tastes, and the volatility of nature itself. Doug Shafer tells the tale of his personal schooling, in addition to Shafer Vineyards’ cutting edge efforts to be environmentally sustainable, its position in spearheading the designation of a Stags jump American Viticultural zone, and the way the wine has replaced within the modern period of custom-crushing and hobbyist vineyard investors.
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5. William F. Heintz, California’s Napa Valley: One Hundred Sixty Years of Wine Making (San Francisco, CA: Scottwall Associates, 1999), 121. A Vineyard in Napa / 23 on a load of grapes, thrashing him into near-lifelessness with a shovel. 6 While numerous colorful stories and key records survive from this period, no one today knows the origins of the name Stag’s Leap. According to a story that’s been handed down for generations, a band of hunters long ago were closing in on a stag that eluded them by leaping from one crag on the palisades to the next.
The only home I’d known was our three-story Victorian in genteel Hinsdale. This was going to be the longest trip I’d ever taken by car. As the skyline of Chicago receded in our rearview mirror and the vast American heartland spread out before us, it was like finding ourselves in a huge novel on page one. Like any good road story, within hours we ran into trouble, which began as drifting, popcorn-sized snowflakes. A charming flurry turned into a white pummeling and then a violent blur. Long stretches of interstate were hit hard with snowstorms, and we inched along, hoping not to slide off into a snowbank, praying not to smash into the back of a stalled truck.