Regional Definitions
Because Mr. Olney found that there is such diversity in the source of the fermentable juices used and styles in wine producing areas of America, he recommends that the recognition of individuals and organizations should be conducted on a regional basis possibly as segmented as follows: (These numbers are based of 2005 count and are in the process of being updated at this time to reflect the best estimated as of December 2009
West (2079)
The nominees are voted upon by members of the wine industry. Individuals employed in the industry must register with the AWIHOF office establishing their credentials as performing in some capacity within one or more of the seven wine industry categories previously detailed.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
Mission StatementTo educate the public regarding the origin, development and growth of wine production as an important part of American culture.
To promote the positive values of wine in the lifestyles of Americans.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation will be a qualifying 501 non-profit company established with a Board of Trustees, slate of officers and paid staff members, augmented by a volunteer work group to document the history of wine in America, provide tours, information services to on-tine visitors of both buildings & grounds and Internet Web sites of the AWI.
Board of Trustees The founding trustees will be selected by the founding funding sponsors and they would serve a three- year period in office and then would implement future selections of trustees in a manner such as Mr. Olney describes below
At-Large Trustees ( 5 ) - They will serve four-year terms. These individuals will be nominated and voted upon by the registered members of the wine industry.
Trustee of Qualified Other HOF Organizations( 6 ) - They will serve three-year terms. Mr. Olney suggests that a permanent seat be offered to each of the existing HOF organizations cited earlier in this presentation, and any such organization in the future that the Board of Trustee feels is a legitimate representative of some field of the AWI. These organizations will nominate and vote for their selected representative to the Board.
Regional Trustees (24) - They will serve two-year terms. He suggests that initially two (2) willing parties be located from within each of the 12 regional areas cited earlier in this presentation, to be the first occupants of the Regional Trustee seats. Thereafter these seats would be selected by nomination and voting by only members within each of the respective 12 regions.
The full Board of Trustees will select the following positions from among their membership:Chairperson1st Vice Chairperson 2nd Vice Chairperson SecretaryTreasurer
Executive Committee (11) The Board of Trustees would select an Executive Committee from among their composition to oversee the routine operations of the staff officers, salaried/waged employees, volunteers and program effectiveness, This committee will be composed of the following membership:
Two (2) from the At-Large category - They serve a four year term. They are selected by vote of the five Trustees of this category
One (1) from the Other HOF category - Serves a three year term and is selected by vote of the six Trustees of this category
Eight (8) from the Regional category with two each from the four geographical areas of the 12 regions listed above. These members will serve two-year terms.
They are selected by vote of the Trustees of this category in the following
manner:
Two from the West
the eight trustees of the region - voted into
office in even number years
Two from the East:the six trustees of this region - voted into office in odd number years.
Two from the South:the six trustees of this region - voted into office in odd number years
Two from the GL and MW
Board Committees:
The Board may establish ad hoc committees as its membership deems appropriate but there will be the following standing committees of the board which are filled by voluntary commitment:
Finance and Audit
- Presiding member Treasure Program Development - Presiding member 1st Vice Chairperson Public Awareness and Promotion - Presiding member 2nd Vice Chairperson Facility and Property Operations and Maintenance - Presiding member Secretary
1. California (1200 wineries)
2. Washington (460)
3. Oregon (300)
4. Other (119) Coast : (5) - AK (3), HI (2), Territories (0)
Inland: (114) - AZ (24), CO (40), ID (23), NM (20), NV (1) , UT (6
East (328)
5. NY (179)
6. PA (70)
7. Other East (79) - CT (10), DE (1), ME (3), MA (12), MD (12), NH (2), NJ (24), RI(5), VT (10), Territories (0)
South (328)
8. VA (90)
9. TX (60)
10. Other South (178)
Gulf: ( 96) - AL (24), FL (14),LA (3), MS (55)
Inland: (37) - AK (4), , GA (20) , KY (7), TN (6),
Atlantic: (45) - NC (10), SC (24), WV (11)
Great Lakes and Central (287)
11. Central: (109)IA (20), KS (8), MO (50), MT (5), NE (5),ND (1), OK (15), SD (4), WY (1)
12. Great Lakes (178)IL (40), IN (30), MI (40), MN (16), OH (40), WI (12)
As currently envisioned, Hall of Fame floor display space would be dedicated to each of the 12 regional areas shown above.
Nominations for consideration of induction into the Hall of Fame
Anybody can nominate individuals and organizations to be considered for the HOF. Unlike other wine related HOF organ-ization sponsors, Mr. Olney does not believe it is a true reflection of the impacts on the American Wine Industry if the selection criteria is to only allow individual names to be considered since there are a number of influences that were developed on a team basis - whether university or private industry - wherein multiple contributors created a particularly valuable improvement to the American Wine Industry. Therefore Mr. Olney recommends that there be six categories in which individuals and organizations can be nominated for induction into the HOF as listed below:
Growers: Grapes, Fruits, Berries, Honey (Mead), Other sugar based feedstock resources
Vintners
Winemakers
These are the people who actually make the wine
Owners
These are the individual, famiiies and companies that envisioned the business and funded it and may or may not have been actively involved in the hands on operation of the facilities
universities scientists
Individuals
Institutions/Corporations Marketing and Public Relations
Individuals
Institutions/Corporations
Organizations – Printed, TV, Radio, Internet websites, movies/DVD
Writers – Columnists, Blogs, Historians, reporters, newsletters,
Distributors and Retailers
Institutions/Corporations
eriods of American Wine Industry History
Mr. Olney feels that the annual inductees might be derived in accordance with the following guidelines,“We are leaning towards selecting individuals and organization from each of what we call the three distinct periods of wine production within American. By doing what we s propose, we can offer each generation the opportunity to recognize those with whom their wine experiences were developed. This also ensures that history is retained by inducting those who came way before any of us in the industry today.”
The three eras that Olney recommends are briefly described below:
"Initialization and Migration" This period is defined as the time from the first arrival of foreigners to the new world up to year about 1825, with the start of America’s great period when it was declared that it ‘was our manifest destiny to make the United States, one country reaching from coast to coast.” This became part of what is known as "The Monroe Doctrine. " Wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s
"Expansionism and Refinement”
The period from about 1825 through the enactment of Prohibition against the commercial production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in 1920 including the period of bootlegging of spirits, beer and wine until Repeal in 1933. This is the period when grape wine moved from just American varietals and their "foxy" taste to the palette, into production using European varietals with a much more refined after-taste. Wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s.
"Resurrection and Perfection" This era commences with Repeal of Prohibition in 1933 to the present and constitutes the period when winemaking retreated from sweet, fortified wines and moved back to premium varietals and excellent generic wines produced in mass quantities. Meanwhile, wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Problems with the California Vintners Hall of Fame Nominating Process
September 21, 2010 By John Olney
For those of you who may not know, I have been a member of both the Nominating Committee (NC) and the Electoral College (EC) since the inaugural year (2006) with the selection of the Class of 2007. I offer the following observations, conclusions and recommendations about the current procedures related to the recent California Vintners Hall Of Fame (CVHOF) nominating, voting and selection process.
To read about those who have already been inducted, click here:; http://amerwine.blogspot.com/2010/09/inductees-thru-class-of-2010-calif.html
I would like to point out a number of errors, misstatements, and obvious personal observations contained in the most recent CVHOF nomination ballot abstracts that I believe are inappropriate to what we are trying to accomplish. The abstracts coversheet has no qualifying caveat stipulating that they were not written by the NC but rather by it's chairman, or perhaps some other single member. Thus, the other EC members probably assume the abstracts are essentially generated by the NC or at least are approved by that committee, which is not the practice.
It is my opinion that our job is to evaluate the wine business contribution(s) made by nominees to the California Wine Industry and not the legal issues that happen between an owner and a winemaker (or other employee/agency), civic contributions and charity donations that are certainly noble and commendable but not directly related to contributions to the California Wine Industry.
The presentation that follows represents a few of the abstract examples of what I personally feel contain false information, statements not germane to the subject of contribution(s) to the California Wine Industry, and/or are personal beliefs about the nominee as opposed to supported factual information. I took great exception to the abstracts on a number of nominees. I complained to the CIA sponsor representatives on three separate occasions seeking a revised ballot to be send out to the Electoral College members. Although they indicated amendment was being considered, they made no such transmission before the close of balloting on September 17, 2009.
I encourage all to make comment and provide feedback about the nominee abstracts contained in the ballot of the Class of 2011 as well as my observations, conclusions and recommendations contained herein. I also want to add that none of these are not made out of malice but rather in an effort to better the process for the nomination, election and meaning of induction to the CVHOF.
Incidentally, I voted favorably on the nominations of Steele, Franzia. Dunn and Sebastiani -- of the five discussed below-- plus a number of others listed on the full ballot. But my reasoning for my vote was not based on any of the abstracts presented on the ballot but rather my own knowledge through research and interviews of the contributions made by many of those nominated, including those listed above and my own lengthy interviews of four (Dunn, Steele, Trinchero and Sullivan) and phone conversations with one (DeLuca) for my wine industry books (Nevada and Napa Counties) in draft at this time.
TO READ ABOUT ALL OF THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR FULL ABSTRACTS, CLICK HERE:; http://amerwine.blogspot.com/2010/09/nomination-ballot-abstracts-for-class.html
Observations and Conclusions
Jed Steele
“….He left K-J in 1991...and lost a lawsuit to K-J involving "trade secrets" about winemaking. So you won't see many interviews from Steele, but he has continued to make good wines…… . Steele continues to play a necessarily quiet role in crafting quality California wine.”
I am interviewing Jed Steele for my Nevada County Wine Industry book, “Empire Gold: Mines to Wines -The Past Meets the Present,” focused on 17 wineries. I am doing this by phone and e-mail in part while Jed was recently in travel status and when I sat down with him on September 13 for an extended in-person interview. Earlier I asked him about the Kendall-Jackson/Jed Steele lawsuits. His description of the results of the suits are vastly different than what is presented in the abstract and I quote Jed below:
If any of you attended the 11th Annual Lake County Wine Auction event this past Saturday evening, you would have seen and heard speaker after speaker praising the efforts and commitment by Jed Steele to the growth of both vineyards and wineries and quality of wines produced in Lake County. Those efforts were also recognized and rewarded by the U.S. Congress issuing Jed a commendation plaque presented to him personally at the auction by local resident U/S. Congressmen Mike Thompson.
Fred Franzia
“…Franzia introduced Charles Shaw wines, varietal vintage wines in bottles for just $2. ….which allowed low income people to have a bottle of wine on the table with dinner. ... He has done as much as anyone in the 21st century to make California wine a part of American daily life. “
Since legal issues are addressed in the abstract for Jed Steele, I cannot help but wonder why the fact that Fred Franzia in 1994, pleaded guilty to federal felony charges for fraud for intentional false grape grading/pricing, was not also included in the Franzia abstract? Then he lost his case to use central valley grapes under former Napa Valley labels he purchased and with that loss, the ruling aids in guaranteeing the protection of AVA and the wine in that bottle. There is no mention of this fact which is as monumental, if not more so, as the protection of alleged “proprietary winemaking formulas.”
If we are to bring up legal issues on one nominee then we need to bring up the same on all other nominees. Otherwise don’t bring up legal issues at all!
The abstract stipulates that Franzia “…introduced Charles Shaw wines, varietal vintage wines in bottles for just $2. ” This is incorrect. Franzia bought rights to the label from the former wife of Charles F. Shaw . The winery operated in the 1980s producing Beaujolais styled wines in upper valley Napa County between St. Helena and Calistoga. Mrs. Shaw gained rights to the label in the 1990s through divorce settlement of the joint property.
Additionally, it was not Franzia per se who introduced “Two Buck Chuck” wine but rather the retail outlets of Trader Joe’s who exclusively presented the wine directly to the consumer public. It is true that Franzia/Bronco produced the wine but Bronco did not sell it directly to the consuming public. The production was a joint business effort of the two separate companies.
Without a retail outlet as well known and patronized by wine and food consumers, the wine in the bottles of what became “Two-Buck Chuck’ would most likely have never become so popular. There were a number of factors that came together to make the success of the wine:
The following is a unfounded editorial comment about Fred Franzia by the author of the abstract: “He has done as much as anyone in the 21st century to make California wine a part of American daily life.” This is simply a lobbyist-like statement, an opinion only, not the result of market assessment or survey. It is the type of comment most appropriate to an induction ceremony but not a nomination abstract.
Randy Dunn
“... An iconoclast who has never joined Napa Valley Vintners or participated in Auction Napa Valley, he has nonetheless led fund-raising efforts for Howell Mountain schools and fire-fighting. ……Dunn is also an advocate for preserving forest. He owns more than 200 acres on Howell Mountain, but has planted only about 30 and has donated 63 to the Napa Valley Land Trust.”
Not joining the NVV is a completely editorial comment by the author of the abstract. Dunn is not the only Napa Valley winemaker/owner who has not joined the NVV, or participated in the auction. Only about 45% of all Napa County CABC Type 2 - winegrower licensed wineries are members of NVV. Almost all vintners, regardless of AVA, contribute wine and/or cash to fund-raising efforts in local communities. Are we to list all advocacy and charity groups for all nominees? These statements has no place in our abstracts. How do they relate to Dunn’s, or any other candidate’s contribution to the California Wine Industry?
Preserving forest? Others do the same, and it is a noble act, but this is not a contribution to the California Wine Industry.
Not planting all owned acres to vineyards? There are how many wineries and growers who own large amounts of land and for a number of reasons do not plant all to vines? If the author was trying to say that Dunn held off planting more acres to vineyards to preserve forest land then the author needs to rewrite the last two sentences to ensure that will be the readers conclusion. But more importantly, how does this make a contribution to the California Wine Industry?
I was privileged to interview Randy Dunn for my book in draft, “The Essence of the Modern Napa Valley Wine Industry - A Trilogy of Contributions by Individual and Team Greats.” I can truly say that there is much more to the man and his contributions to the California Wine Industry that could have been mentioned than what the abstract contained.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
“…– if Parker gives an unknown wine a high rating, it can sell out without any trouble from the three-tier distribution system that blocks the success of many small wineries….”.
Is the author of the this abstract the PR man, lobbyist, etc for Parker? How does this portion of the abstract qualify as a contribution to the California Wine Industry? Why are we singling out the three-tier distribution system? I thought that our Electoral College is not suppose to be a political organization. It serves no useful purpose to take on those big businesses!
August Sebastiani
“…He played a major part in the economic development of the town of Sonoma, and was a significant philanthropist whose charitable gifts included the property for the Sonoma Valley Hospital…”
Again, I do not believe this type of comment applies to the credentials for nomination to the HOF for contribution to the California Wine Industry. If we make this kind of comment for one nominee then we must make similar comments for all other nominees for they too do good citizenship efforts in their communities. These type of comments are appropriate to a biography on the nominee and certainly if elected, in the presentation speech on his life accomplishments.
Conclusion and Recommendations
I thought we were evaluating what the nominees contributed to the California Wine Industry? Abstract comments like the donation of wine to charity auction events, or land to trusts or avoiding planting of vines reads like we are electing nominees because of good citizenship and their donations to the community. The aforementioned comments in the abstracts have nothing to do with contributions to the California Wine Industry! These type of comments are appropriate to a biography on the nominee or in a speech introducing an inductee at an installation ceremony.
The abstracts written on the Nominees have legal implications in that in some cases they are highly editorial, opinionated and could be deemed derogatory and possibly represent defamation of character. In some cases they could be construed as sabotaging the prospects of the nominee gaining sufficient votes to be inducted in the CVHOF.
The Electoral College should:
1. Develop a set of written guidelines defining the purpose, goals, missions and operating procedures for the process of nominating candidates for presentation on a ballot. These guidelines should be provided to each member of the college. hings like how committee members are considered, and then appointed to serve and how long they serve, etc. should be spelled out.
2. Establish a review committee to ensure that abstracts are “politics, bias” free as possible and/or run them by the nominee to ensure that the abstract is not going to cause a problem. Since the list of nominee names is published on the internet, there is no reason why the abstracts should not also be published to the nominee and the wine consuming public so they know upon what the Electoral College members based their votes,
3. The nomination ballot should contain an announcement of who wrote each of the abstracts and it should also include a disclaimer provision holding all of the other Nominating Committee members harmless and indemnified from lawsuit due to the contents of the abstracts.
4. Require the publication to the members of the Electoral College the vote count for each nominee prior to the announcement of the “winners” so that the body understands how candidates were finally selected for induction. In this manner there is no secrecy or chance of errors going unnoticed.
5. The Electoral College should send out a receipt e-mail or letter to each member upon the receipt of that members’ completed ballot just as we receive receipts for proof that we voted in public elections.
For those of you who may not know, I have been a member of both the Nominating Committee (NC) and the Electoral College (EC) since the inaugural year (2006) with the selection of the Class of 2007. I offer the following observations, conclusions and recommendations about the current procedures related to the recent California Vintners Hall Of Fame (CVHOF) nominating, voting and selection process.
To read about those who have already been inducted, click here:; http://amerwine.blogspot.com/2010/09/inductees-thru-class-of-2010-calif.html
I would like to point out a number of errors, misstatements, and obvious personal observations contained in the most recent CVHOF nomination ballot abstracts that I believe are inappropriate to what we are trying to accomplish. The abstracts coversheet has no qualifying caveat stipulating that they were not written by the NC but rather by it's chairman, or perhaps some other single member. Thus, the other EC members probably assume the abstracts are essentially generated by the NC or at least are approved by that committee, which is not the practice.
It is my opinion that our job is to evaluate the wine business contribution(s) made by nominees to the California Wine Industry and not the legal issues that happen between an owner and a winemaker (or other employee/agency), civic contributions and charity donations that are certainly noble and commendable but not directly related to contributions to the California Wine Industry.
The presentation that follows represents a few of the abstract examples of what I personally feel contain false information, statements not germane to the subject of contribution(s) to the California Wine Industry, and/or are personal beliefs about the nominee as opposed to supported factual information. I took great exception to the abstracts on a number of nominees. I complained to the CIA sponsor representatives on three separate occasions seeking a revised ballot to be send out to the Electoral College members. Although they indicated amendment was being considered, they made no such transmission before the close of balloting on September 17, 2009.
I encourage all to make comment and provide feedback about the nominee abstracts contained in the ballot of the Class of 2011 as well as my observations, conclusions and recommendations contained herein. I also want to add that none of these are not made out of malice but rather in an effort to better the process for the nomination, election and meaning of induction to the CVHOF.
Incidentally, I voted favorably on the nominations of Steele, Franzia. Dunn and Sebastiani -- of the five discussed below-- plus a number of others listed on the full ballot. But my reasoning for my vote was not based on any of the abstracts presented on the ballot but rather my own knowledge through research and interviews of the contributions made by many of those nominated, including those listed above and my own lengthy interviews of four (Dunn, Steele, Trinchero and Sullivan) and phone conversations with one (DeLuca) for my wine industry books (Nevada and Napa Counties) in draft at this time.
TO READ ABOUT ALL OF THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR FULL ABSTRACTS, CLICK HERE:; http://amerwine.blogspot.com/2010/09/nomination-ballot-abstracts-for-class.html
Observations and Conclusions
Jed Steele
“….He left K-J in 1991...and lost a lawsuit to K-J involving "trade secrets" about winemaking. So you won't see many interviews from Steele, but he has continued to make good wines…… . Steele continues to play a necessarily quiet role in crafting quality California wine.”
I am interviewing Jed Steele for my Nevada County Wine Industry book, “Empire Gold: Mines to Wines -The Past Meets the Present,” focused on 17 wineries. I am doing this by phone and e-mail in part while Jed was recently in travel status and when I sat down with him on September 13 for an extended in-person interview. Earlier I asked him about the Kendall-Jackson/Jed Steele lawsuits. His description of the results of the suits are vastly different than what is presented in the abstract and I quote Jed below:
“I didn't ‘lose’ my lawsuit against Kendall Jackson. This legal action had four separate elements. The judge ruled that I prevailed in two matters and that Kendall Jackson prevailed in two matters. As part of the verdicts, I actually received a cash settlement from K-J. The only restriction placed on me was that I was prohibited from making Chardonnay according to a ‘supposed’ formula used at Kendall Jackson.”I also asked him if he was restricted from giving interviews because of the lawsuit and he immediately fired back the following:
“John, first of all I have given numerous interviews, etc... over the past 19 years to all sorts of publications. Consulting all over the western USA for 15+ years, really wouldn't be considered keeping a low profile!”Later in the conversation, he indicated he was under no such restrictions that result in a “necessarily quiet role“ in the California/American Wine Industry!
If any of you attended the 11th Annual Lake County Wine Auction event this past Saturday evening, you would have seen and heard speaker after speaker praising the efforts and commitment by Jed Steele to the growth of both vineyards and wineries and quality of wines produced in Lake County. Those efforts were also recognized and rewarded by the U.S. Congress issuing Jed a commendation plaque presented to him personally at the auction by local resident U/S. Congressmen Mike Thompson.
Fred Franzia
“…Franzia introduced Charles Shaw wines, varietal vintage wines in bottles for just $2. ….which allowed low income people to have a bottle of wine on the table with dinner. ... He has done as much as anyone in the 21st century to make California wine a part of American daily life. “
Since legal issues are addressed in the abstract for Jed Steele, I cannot help but wonder why the fact that Fred Franzia in 1994, pleaded guilty to federal felony charges for fraud for intentional false grape grading/pricing, was not also included in the Franzia abstract? Then he lost his case to use central valley grapes under former Napa Valley labels he purchased and with that loss, the ruling aids in guaranteeing the protection of AVA and the wine in that bottle. There is no mention of this fact which is as monumental, if not more so, as the protection of alleged “proprietary winemaking formulas.”
If we are to bring up legal issues on one nominee then we need to bring up the same on all other nominees. Otherwise don’t bring up legal issues at all!
The abstract stipulates that Franzia “…introduced Charles Shaw wines, varietal vintage wines in bottles for just $2. ” This is incorrect. Franzia bought rights to the label from the former wife of Charles F. Shaw . The winery operated in the 1980s producing Beaujolais styled wines in upper valley Napa County between St. Helena and Calistoga. Mrs. Shaw gained rights to the label in the 1990s through divorce settlement of the joint property.
Additionally, it was not Franzia per se who introduced “Two Buck Chuck” wine but rather the retail outlets of Trader Joe’s who exclusively presented the wine directly to the consumer public. It is true that Franzia/Bronco produced the wine but Bronco did not sell it directly to the consuming public. The production was a joint business effort of the two separate companies.
Without a retail outlet as well known and patronized by wine and food consumers, the wine in the bottles of what became “Two-Buck Chuck’ would most likely have never become so popular. There were a number of factors that came together to make the success of the wine:
First of all is the extreme popularity of Trade Joe’s stores. It took awhile for the average consumer to even know that it was Franzia/Bronco who produced the wine.The concept that the wine “allowed low income people to have a bottle of wine on the table with dinner,” is, in my opinion, an unfounded editorial comment that lacks any credible evidence since the wine sells in all economic groups. I doubt seriously that the owners of Trader Joe’s will appreciate such an evaluation of their customer base. Cost Plus, $/dollar stores, supermarkets, etc have also offered wines in the $1 to $4 price range. Before these “new marketing methods” were many wines made by large companies that were affordable to almost all income levels of America - Virginia Dare, Italian Swiss Colony, etc. just to name a couple.
Second was the innocent nicknaming of the Charles Shaw wine as “Two Buck Chuck” by a non-participating party in Los Angeles area and that name has not appeared as a wine label name. That catchy and very marketable nickname greatly helped launch the success of the wine.
Third is the fact that it can only be purchased at a Trader Joe’s outlet, making it exclusive, unique and therefore more interesting to the consumer market.
Fourth was the price of $1.99, which by the way, was only available in California outlets. It sold for $2.99-3.99 elsewhere.
The following is a unfounded editorial comment about Fred Franzia by the author of the abstract: “He has done as much as anyone in the 21st century to make California wine a part of American daily life.” This is simply a lobbyist-like statement, an opinion only, not the result of market assessment or survey. It is the type of comment most appropriate to an induction ceremony but not a nomination abstract.
Randy Dunn
“... An iconoclast who has never joined Napa Valley Vintners or participated in Auction Napa Valley, he has nonetheless led fund-raising efforts for Howell Mountain schools and fire-fighting. ……Dunn is also an advocate for preserving forest. He owns more than 200 acres on Howell Mountain, but has planted only about 30 and has donated 63 to the Napa Valley Land Trust.”
Not joining the NVV is a completely editorial comment by the author of the abstract. Dunn is not the only Napa Valley winemaker/owner who has not joined the NVV, or participated in the auction. Only about 45% of all Napa County CABC Type 2 - winegrower licensed wineries are members of NVV. Almost all vintners, regardless of AVA, contribute wine and/or cash to fund-raising efforts in local communities. Are we to list all advocacy and charity groups for all nominees? These statements has no place in our abstracts. How do they relate to Dunn’s, or any other candidate’s contribution to the California Wine Industry?
Preserving forest? Others do the same, and it is a noble act, but this is not a contribution to the California Wine Industry.
Not planting all owned acres to vineyards? There are how many wineries and growers who own large amounts of land and for a number of reasons do not plant all to vines? If the author was trying to say that Dunn held off planting more acres to vineyards to preserve forest land then the author needs to rewrite the last two sentences to ensure that will be the readers conclusion. But more importantly, how does this make a contribution to the California Wine Industry?
I was privileged to interview Randy Dunn for my book in draft, “The Essence of the Modern Napa Valley Wine Industry - A Trilogy of Contributions by Individual and Team Greats.” I can truly say that there is much more to the man and his contributions to the California Wine Industry that could have been mentioned than what the abstract contained.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
“…– if Parker gives an unknown wine a high rating, it can sell out without any trouble from the three-tier distribution system that blocks the success of many small wineries….”.
Is the author of the this abstract the PR man, lobbyist, etc for Parker? How does this portion of the abstract qualify as a contribution to the California Wine Industry? Why are we singling out the three-tier distribution system? I thought that our Electoral College is not suppose to be a political organization. It serves no useful purpose to take on those big businesses!
August Sebastiani
“…He played a major part in the economic development of the town of Sonoma, and was a significant philanthropist whose charitable gifts included the property for the Sonoma Valley Hospital…”
Again, I do not believe this type of comment applies to the credentials for nomination to the HOF for contribution to the California Wine Industry. If we make this kind of comment for one nominee then we must make similar comments for all other nominees for they too do good citizenship efforts in their communities. These type of comments are appropriate to a biography on the nominee and certainly if elected, in the presentation speech on his life accomplishments.
Conclusion and Recommendations
I thought we were evaluating what the nominees contributed to the California Wine Industry? Abstract comments like the donation of wine to charity auction events, or land to trusts or avoiding planting of vines reads like we are electing nominees because of good citizenship and their donations to the community. The aforementioned comments in the abstracts have nothing to do with contributions to the California Wine Industry! These type of comments are appropriate to a biography on the nominee or in a speech introducing an inductee at an installation ceremony.
The abstracts written on the Nominees have legal implications in that in some cases they are highly editorial, opinionated and could be deemed derogatory and possibly represent defamation of character. In some cases they could be construed as sabotaging the prospects of the nominee gaining sufficient votes to be inducted in the CVHOF.
The Electoral College should:
1. Develop a set of written guidelines defining the purpose, goals, missions and operating procedures for the process of nominating candidates for presentation on a ballot. These guidelines should be provided to each member of the college. hings like how committee members are considered, and then appointed to serve and how long they serve, etc. should be spelled out.
2. Establish a review committee to ensure that abstracts are “politics, bias” free as possible and/or run them by the nominee to ensure that the abstract is not going to cause a problem. Since the list of nominee names is published on the internet, there is no reason why the abstracts should not also be published to the nominee and the wine consuming public so they know upon what the Electoral College members based their votes,
3. The nomination ballot should contain an announcement of who wrote each of the abstracts and it should also include a disclaimer provision holding all of the other Nominating Committee members harmless and indemnified from lawsuit due to the contents of the abstracts.
4. Require the publication to the members of the Electoral College the vote count for each nominee prior to the announcement of the “winners” so that the body understands how candidates were finally selected for induction. In this manner there is no secrecy or chance of errors going unnoticed.
5. The Electoral College should send out a receipt e-mail or letter to each member upon the receipt of that members’ completed ballot just as we receive receipts for proof that we voted in public elections.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Inductees thru Class of 2010 Calif. Vintners HOF
Culinary Institute of America - Greystone, St. Helena, CA:
Sponsors of:
The California Vintners Hall of Fame (CVHOF):
Inductees to date: 31 over four years
NOTES/COMMENTS
Primarily Vineyard Growers and Owners or Managers (not winemakers) [1]
Andy Beckstoffer, Beckstoffer,1965, 2010, Napa
Primarily Winery Owner (not winemakers) [5]
Jess Jackson, Kendall Jackson, 1974, 2009, Lake
*Robert Mondavi, Mondavi & Sons, 1940's, 2007, Napa
*John Daniel, Jr., Inglenook (now known as "Rubicon), 1935, 2008, Napa
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era "-- 1730’s through 1933
Georges de Latour, Beaulieu, 1920’s, 2007, Napa
Gustave Niebaum, Inglenook (now known as "Rubicon), 1870’s, 2007, Napa
Primarily Winemakers (not owners of a winery) [2] the timeframe of person’s primary contribution
Mike Grgich, Ch. Montelena (Now he owns Grgich winery), 1958, 2008, Napa
*Andre Tchelistcheff, Beaulieu, 1938, 2007, Napa
Primarily Winemakers/Owners [17]
Randall Gramhm, Bonny Doon, 1983, 2010, Santa Cruz
*Justin Meyer, Silver Oak, 1972, 2009, Napa
Zelma Long, R. Mondavi/Simi, 1970, 2010, Napa/Sonoma
*Al Brounstein, Diamond Creek, 1968, 2010, Napa
Warren Winiarski, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, 1964, 2009, Napa
*Jack & *Jamie Davies, Schramsberg, 1964, 2009, Napa
Paul Draper, Ridge, 1962, 2009, Santa Cruz
*Louis P. Martini, Martini, 1950s, 2008, Napa
*Brother Timothy, Christian Bros., 1935, 2007; /Napa
*Ernest and;* Julio Gallo, Gallo Bros., 1933, 2008, Central Valley
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
Frederick and; Jacob Beringer, Beringer Bros. 1850’s, 2009, Napa
Carl H. Wente, Wente, 1850’s, 2008, Livermore
Agoston Harazathy, Buena Vista, 1850’s, 2007, Sonoma
Charles Krug, Krug, 1850’s , 2007, Napa
Marketing/Public Relations/Trade Advocacy [0]
None
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
Brokers/Distribution/retail Sales [1]
Daryl Corti, Corti Bros., 1930's, 2009, Sacramento Valley
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
Media -- Print, Film, Television, Internet [2]
Gerald Asher, writer, 1970s, 2009, San Francisco, Ca
*Leon Adams,writer,1960s,2010, Sausalito, CA
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
Academic/Research and Development [3]
Carol Meredith, Ph.D., UC Davis,1981, 2009,Sacramento Valley
*Harold Olmo, Ph.D., UC Davis,1938, 2007,Sacramento Valley
*Maynard Amerine Ph.D.,UC Davis,1935, 2007,Sacramento Valley
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
Sponsors of:
The California Vintners Hall of Fame (CVHOF):
Inductees to date: 31 over four years
NOTES/COMMENTS
Categories are the one under which candidate was primarily recognized for contribution to the California Wine Industry THESE CATEGORIES ARE NOT USED BY THE CIA CVHOF WHEN THEY LIST THE INDUCTEES. WE BELIEVE THAT THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES ARE A BETTER WAY TO PRESENT THE INPUTS OF CANDIDATES AND FINAL INDUCTEES INTO A WINE PRODUCERS HALL OF FAMEInductee line format: name, facility/organization, year 1st in wine, year inducted , County/District
* Signifies that party is deceased
Primarily Vineyard Growers and Owners or Managers (not winemakers) [1]
Andy Beckstoffer, Beckstoffer,1965, 2010, Napa
Primarily Winery Owner (not winemakers) [5]
Jess Jackson, Kendall Jackson, 1974, 2009, Lake
*Robert Mondavi, Mondavi & Sons, 1940's, 2007, Napa
*John Daniel, Jr., Inglenook (now known as "Rubicon), 1935, 2008, Napa
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era "-- 1730’s through 1933
Georges de Latour, Beaulieu, 1920’s, 2007, Napa
Gustave Niebaum, Inglenook (now known as "Rubicon), 1870’s, 2007, Napa
Primarily Winemakers (not owners of a winery) [2] the timeframe of person’s primary contribution
Mike Grgich, Ch. Montelena (Now he owns Grgich winery), 1958, 2008, Napa
*Andre Tchelistcheff, Beaulieu, 1938, 2007, Napa
Primarily Winemakers/Owners [17]
Randall Gramhm, Bonny Doon, 1983, 2010, Santa Cruz
*Justin Meyer, Silver Oak, 1972, 2009, Napa
Zelma Long, R. Mondavi/Simi, 1970, 2010, Napa/Sonoma
*Al Brounstein, Diamond Creek, 1968, 2010, Napa
Warren Winiarski, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, 1964, 2009, Napa
*Jack & *Jamie Davies, Schramsberg, 1964, 2009, Napa
Paul Draper, Ridge, 1962, 2009, Santa Cruz
*Louis P. Martini, Martini, 1950s, 2008, Napa
*Brother Timothy, Christian Bros., 1935, 2007; /Napa
*Ernest and;* Julio Gallo, Gallo Bros., 1933, 2008, Central Valley
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
Frederick and; Jacob Beringer, Beringer Bros. 1850’s, 2009, Napa
Carl H. Wente, Wente, 1850’s, 2008, Livermore
Agoston Harazathy, Buena Vista, 1850’s, 2007, Sonoma
Charles Krug, Krug, 1850’s , 2007, Napa
Marketing/Public Relations/Trade Advocacy [0]
None
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
Brokers/Distribution/retail Sales [1]
Daryl Corti, Corti Bros., 1930's, 2009, Sacramento Valley
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
An example would be Kohler and Frohling operating out of San Francisco and moving wines first out of Southern California to the east and then from Northern California when the area caught up with the southern California producers.
Media -- Print, Film, Television, Internet [2]
Gerald Asher, writer, 1970s, 2009, San Francisco, Ca
*Leon Adams,writer,1960s,2010, Sausalito, CA
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
Academic/Research and Development [3]
Carol Meredith, Ph.D., UC Davis,1981, 2009,Sacramento Valley
*Harold Olmo, Ph.D., UC Davis,1938, 2007,Sacramento Valley
*Maynard Amerine Ph.D.,UC Davis,1935, 2007,Sacramento Valley
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era - 1730's through 1933
None
An example might be George Husmann who was one of earliest to recognize problems from phyyoxera and search for resistant root stock
Architecture/Engineering [0]
None
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era -- 1730’s through 1933
None None
*Pre-Prohibition through Repeal Era -- 1730’s through 1933
An example is the winery manager at Inglenook (now known as Rubicon) Hamdon McIntryre, He produced the designs of the following eight (8) Napa County wineries during the 1880/90s, all of which are buildings still in use today: Inglenook, Greystone (home of the CIA food and wine campus), Far Niente, Chateau Montelena, interior of Beaulieu ( was originally the Ewer & Atkinson winery), Hedgeside leased to Del Dotto wines) , Trefethen, and Frog’s Leap,
Nomination Ballot Abstracts for Class of 2011 Candidates
QUOTE
Thank you for participating in the Vintners Hall of Fame Electoral College. You will decide who will be honored in 2011 for their contributions to California wine.
We vote by acclamation. It's easy: vote for as many candidates as you like. You can vote for everyone on the ballot, just one person, or any number in between. It's entirely up to you.
The top vote getters in each category will enter the Vintners Hall of Fame at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.
The ballot is separated into two categories: the general category, for contemporary nominees, and the Pioneer category, for people who will have been dead for more than 10 years on the induction date.
This separation is purely for balloting convenience. Once inducted, a Hall of Famer is a Hall of Famer.
While you can vote for everyone, the net effect would be that no one would gain a vote over anyone else. It's up to you to make the hard choice between those you believe belong in the Hall in 2011 and those who are not yet at the same level of achievement.
As you can see from the nominee list, the achievement may be in any area: winemaking, viticulture, research, promotion, writing or whatever.
I encourage you to vote thoughtfully, but not to delay. The deadline for submitting your ballot is September 17, 2010. Ballots may be emailed to mwangbickler@balzac.com or faxed to 707-255-1119.
If you have any questions about the voting process, the nominees or the Vintners Hall of Fame, please email Electoral College Chairman W. Blake Gray at "mailto:wblakegray@gmail.com" .
Thanks for voting!
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General Category
John A. De Luca
John De Luca served more than 27 years as President and CEO of Wine Institute. Deputy mayor of San Francisco until he started in 1975, he came into the position with no real knowledge of wine. But he had experience in Washington, having worked on national security matters in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. De Luca quickly established his position on the existing regulatory climate with a paper titled "The Neo Prohibitionists." De Luca helped represent the wine industry to Congress during several hostile periods, and successfully opposed a Nickel a Drink tax in 1990. During his tenure in 1995, wine was added to the federal dietary guidelines, and officially recognized by the US government as having cardiovascular benefits. This fundamentally repositioned the way wine is regulated.
Randy Dunn
Randy Dunn established his reputation as winemaker at Caymus Vineyards from 1975 to 1984. An iconoclast who has never joined Napa Valley Vintners or participated in Auction Napa Valley, he has nonetheless led fund-raising efforts for Howell Mountain schools and fire-fighting. He bought his original vineyard property on Howell Mountain in 1972 and opened Dunn Vineyards in 1979. Since then he has maintained an interest in making balanced Cabernet Sauvignon, generally keeping the alcohol below 14%. Dunn is also an advocate for preserving forest. He owns more than 200 acres on Howell Mountain, but has planted only about 30 and has donated 63 to the Napa Valley Land Trust.
Fred Franzia
In 2002 Fred Franzia introduced Charles Shaw wines, varietal vintage wines in bottles for just $2. Within three years he was selling 6 million cases of them, which allowed low income people to have a bottle of wine on the table with dinner. Franzia has also produced inexpensive wines specifically for restaurants as part of the idea that people should drink wine with dinner instead of beer or soda. Franzia has built Bronco Wine Co. into the 4th largest wine company in the United States, with a portfolio entirely of value wines. He has done as much as anyone in the 21st century to make California wine a part of American daily life.
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Josh Jensen
A native Californian, Jensen went to Burgundy after getting his master's degree in anthropology from Oxford and worked two harvests, including one at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Legend has it that he smuggled clones of DRC's Pinot Noir vines to the US in his pants on a trans-Atlantic flight. In any case, he planted Pinot atop Mt. Harlan because of its limestone soils, which he found by searching maps from the state's Bureau of Mines. The location is so remote that it has no electricity, phones or paved roads, but Jensen was convinced it was the perfect terroir. For more than 30 years he has been one of America's leading Pinot Noir makers, making elegant, ageworthy, vineyard-designated wines from a still-primitive location.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Parker took a giant leap of faith in publishing his first Wine Advocate newsletter in 1978. At the time, he was a lawyer who thought wines were not being priced in relation to their quality. Parker's easily understood ratings and user-friendly tasting notes have helped many boutique wineries establish themselves – if Parker gives an unknown wine a high rating, it can sell out without any trouble from the three-tier distribution system that blocks the success of many small wineries. He has been a champion of California wines from the beginning of his career. Parker's prestige has helped project the influence of the American wine community throughout the world, as European wineries now focus more on the American media than on their UK counterparts.
Vince Petrucci
Fom 1948 through 1993, Vince Petrucci built Fresno State's Department of Viticulture and Enology from the ground up. He said he got the job over several other qualified candidates because "I was the only one who could drive a tractor," and that approach characterized his philosophy of education. While UC Davis is known for strong theoretical and experimental research into grapes and wine, Fresno State is known for producing winemakers and grape growers who get their hands dirty. Petrucci's students have fanned out around the world and he has advised wineries in more than 50 countries, but his greatest impact was in California, where his intensive hands-on training produced more than one generation of winemakers and vineyard managers.
Joel Peterson
While working as a microbiologist, Joel Peterson co-founded Ravenswood Winery in 1976 with $4,000, no vineyards and no winery. He had worked with Joseph Swan for five vintages and wanted to make great wine from older vines planted in the right locations, which is how he became a Zinfandel expert, as those were the oldest vines in California. At the time, Zin was mostly known for making sweet pink wine. With his single-vineyard Zins, Peterson was instrumental in showing how well the grape reflects its terroir. Peterson's wines helped preserve some of California's oldest vineyards. In 2001, Ravenswood was sold to Constellation Brands for $148 million, but unlike many winemakers who strike gold, Peterson stayed with Constellation as a senior Vice President and Ravenswood's head winemaker, where he has continued to promote and produce the excellence of single-vineyard Zinfandel.
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Andy Quady
While working at Heublein in the Central Valley in the 1970s, Andy Quady built a small winery behind his house. He made his first Port-style wine in 1975 from Amador County Zinfandel. For several years he made dessert wines on nights and weekends at home. In 1980 he created Essensia from Orange Muscat, an obscure variety. In 1983, he turned Black Muscat into Elysium. He also makes a wine in the style of Amontillado Sherry, and one of California's first artisanal vermouths. Quady elegantly solved the problem of what to call his initial Port-style wine when faced with the issue of Portuguese producers complaining that Port is a place name. Sweet-wine-loving consumers are now able to enjoy Quady Starboard.
Richard Sanford
A Burgundy fan, Sanford graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in geography in 1965 but was immediately drafted. He got out of the Navy in the late 1960s with a passion for Pinot Noir. He drove across Santa Barbara County with a thermometer before settling on a site west of U.S. Highway 101 in the Santa Ynez Valley. For some years Sanford had the west side of the highway to himself; he was the first winemaker to prove the potential for Pinot Noir in the chilly Santa Rita Hills. He founded Sanford Winery in 1981 and spent the next 20 years making some of the best regarded Pinot Noirs from the region. Sanford left his namesake winery in 2005 and founded Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards.
Angelo Sangiacomo
Angelo Sangiacomo and his siblings took over his family's fruit farming operations in the 1950s. In 1969, he planted a 100-acre vineyard with Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. He quickly realized that Sonoma Carneros was Pinot and Chardonnay country. In the early 1980s he converted 400 more acres from fruit trees to wine grapes. Angelo was one of the first Californians to see the value in promoting a vineyard – not a winery – as a brand, and he has actively worked on promotions like hosting annual educational tastings. Sangiacomo Vineyards has evolved to become one of the most respected vineyards in Sonoma County, working with more than 70 different wineries. Angelo's program of dedicating individual rows to different wineries that want them has resulted in some of California's best small-lot Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, and his viticulture is rewarded by having the name Sangiacomo Vineyards appear on more than 30 vineyard-designated wines.
Vernon Singleton
An expert on wine chemistry, Professor Singleton spent more than four decades in the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, retiring in 1991. He published more than 220 papers and four books. Wine: An Introduction for Americans, co-authored with Maynard Amerine, remains among the most widely read books of its kind, even decades after its last printing. Principles and Practices of Winemaking, co-authored with three UC Davis colleagues, is a textbook used worldwide. Professor Singleton is best known for his identification, characterization and transformation of the many phenolic substances in wine, including tannins. He also studied the contributions of barrel aging to wine phenolic composition and the role of oxygen in wine maturation.
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Jed Steele
As vineyard manager and winemaker for Edmeades, Jed Steele was one of the first to show the potential of Anderson Valley grapes. He went to work for Kendall-Jackson in 1983 and developed the slightly sweet Vintners Reserve Chardonnay that has been one of America's favorite wines ever since. He left K-J in 1991 to found Steele Wines and lost a lawsuit to K-J involving "trade secrets" about winemaking. So you won't see many interviews from Steele, but he has continued to make good wines under his own label, Steele Wines, in Kelseyville for the last two decades. His wines were among the first to put Lake County on the map. He has also been director of enology at Villa Mt. Eden and a consulting winemaker for Indian Springs Winery in Nevada County. Steele continues to play a necessarily quiet role in crafting quality California wine.
Charles Sullivan
Charles Sullivan is the leading contemporary historian of California wine. His books include A Companion to California Wine: An Encyclopedia of Wine and Winemaking from the Mission Period to the Present (1998); Napa Wine: A History from Mission Days to the Present (1994); and Zinfandel: A History of a Grape and Its Wine (2003). Sullivan's books have been as important as any in preserving the knowledge of California's wine history for future generations. Disclosure: Sullivan is a member of the Nominating Committee for the Vintners Hall of Fame. He was nominated by other committee members and did not vote for his own inclusion on this ballot.
Bob Trinchero
Bob Trinchero took over Sutter Home Winery in the 1960s, inheriting a mom-and-pop operation that sold generic wines to their Napa Valley neighbors, who filled barrels and bottles at the winery's back door. In 1968 he began making Amador County Zinfandel, purchasing fruit from some of the oldest vines in California. In 1972, looking for a way to make the wine more intense, he drained off some of the juice before fermentation and left some natural sugar in it, calling it "Oeil de Perdrix, A White Zinfandel Wine." Three years later, he dropped Oeil de Perdrix, as he had created what became America's favorite wine for the rest of the millennium. Say what you want about White Zinfandel, it was affordable, introduced non-wine drinkers to wine, and preserved some old Zinfandel vineyards that might have been grafted to Chardonnay or paved for housing. And it made millions of people happy. Trinchero has played a large role in hosting Auction Napa Valley, which has contributed tens of millions of dollars to charity.
Nils Venge
Nils Venge has been one of the most important Cabernet Sauvignon winemakers of the past 30 years. He established his reputation as the first winemaker at Villa Mount Eden in the 1970s. Many California Cabernets have now earned 100 points from Robert Parker, but his 1985 Groth Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon was the first, and that had ripples throughout the wine world. Venge and his father-in-law purchased the property that became Saddleback Cellars in 1976, and in 1993 he left Groth to make it his main focus. However, even today Venge is a sought-after winemaking consultant throughout Napa Valley.
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Pioneer Category
Cesar Chavez
Forced with his family off their Arizona farm by the Great Depression, Cesar Chavez became a migrant farm worker in California at age 11. In 1952, at age 25, he was hired as a community organizer by the Community Service Organization, where he developed his aggressive yet non-violent style of confrontation. In 1962, he and Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers. Their first major labor event was a grape-picking strike in 1965. The UFW encouraged all Americans to boycott table grapes in support of workers' rights. Chavez and the UFW reported illegal immigrants who had been brought in to break the strike, and in 1973 they organized along the US-Mexico border to prevent people from crossing illegally. Thanks to Chavez, the Mexican-American farmworkers achieved greater rights, recognition, and better pay. Chavez also led a boycott of grapes in the 1980s in protest of pesticide use, and fasted for 36 days as part of that protest.
Hamilton Crabb
Hamilton Crabb came to Napa Valley in 1868 and planted a 240-acre vineyard he called To Kalon. Crabb was a pioneer in converting from Mission grapes to vinifera varietals, which he was one of the first in California to graft onto native rootstock. His passion for viticulture led him to create a plant library of more than 400 varieties. He was one of the first to plant and promote Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley. By 1884, he had the largest winery in upper Napa Valley, and was instrumental in earning the region a name for excellence. Crabb's To Kalon vineyard still exists today and is still one of the best regarded vineyards in California.
Richard Graff
Richard Graff was a pioneer of California Pinot Noir. With a loan from his mother in 1965, Graff bought Chalone vineyard, which had been producing mistletoe. He recognized that the limestone soil was similar to terrain he had worked on during a year spent in Burgundy. He restored neglected grapevines and introduced Burgundian methods of winemaking: fermenting in oak barrels imported from France, aging white wines on their lees, and encouraging malolactic fermentation – all anathema in California at the time. He took pains to preserve the character inherent in the microclimate of Chalone’s unusual site. He produced finely crafted Pinot Noir of a quality we now take for granted in California. Demand for his wines far exceeded the supply. Eventually he brought in partners, expanded, and later the enlarged company acquired Acacia, then a leading producer of Pinot Noir in Carneros.
Myron Nightingale
Myron Nightingale began his career as a winemaker in 1944, and by 1949 he was chief chemist at Italian Swiss Colony, one of California's largest wineries. In 1953 he took charge of Livermore's historic Cresta Blanca Winery, guiding the resuscitation of the rundown facility. He made enological history with his Premier Semillon made in the style of Sauternes, in which the botrytis cinerea was actually produced in the laboratory. Nightingale moved to Napa in 1971 to apply his resuscitation skills at the old Beringer Winery, newly purchased by Nestle. As winemaker and director of operations he did far more than just bring the dilapidated facility back to life; he gradually made it a large scale producer of world class varietal wines. The Los Angeles Times called him Beringer's "Angel of Mercy."
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Eugene Hilgard
In 1874 Eugene Hilgard was lured to UC Berkeley from his research post at the University of Michigan. The UC president needed a great scholar to head the College of Agriculture and to pursue research in agriculture science. What Hilgard found in California was a land whose soil and climate were perfect for winegrowing. And yet the state's young wine industry was struggling, its wines were generally of poor quality, and its most promising wine lands had been invaded by phylloxera. Hilgard spent 25 years leading a statewide movement to remedy the situation. He created a unit at UC devoted to viticulture and enology, the first in the nation, and today the greatest. He organized courses, recruited faculty, and reached out a helping hand to the state's winegrowers. By 1894 the College had published its 100th technical bulletin, more than half devoted to viticulture and enology, all supplied free to all who asked. He traveled the state continually, and knew personally all its leading winegrowers. Hilgard's ideals and the program he founded are still evident today in UC Davis' department of Viticulture and Enology.
Charles LeFranc
Charles LeFranc was the father of commercial winegrowing in today’s Silicon Valley. He came to California in 1850 and went to work for a Frenchman who had planted a few grapes south of San Jose at the head of the Almaden Valley. By 1857 LeFranc was in charge of the estate and the next year made the first commercially important import of French grape varieties. In five years he was marketing California’s first Cabernet Sauvignon. He expanded his import by grafting a few buds onto native vines, a first in California viticultural history. Year after year his Almaden Winery wines took the lion’s share of medals at Bay Area fairs. Charles Krug claimed LeFranc’s Riesling was the best in the state. LeFranc's success grew in the 1870s, when the rest of the state’s wine industry was beaten almost to death by a national depression.
August Sebastiani
August Sebastiani, the youngest of three children, purchased Sebastiani winery from his father's estate in 1952 and developed it into what was at the time of his death in 1980 the 6th largest winery in the U.S. As his father had, August sold mostly jug wines, increasing production by more than 100 times over three decades. He was the first California vintner to make affordable varietal wines in magnum sizes. August Sebastiani was an enormous source of support for major growers in key wine growing regions including Alexander Valley, Lodi and Napa and Sonoma Valley. For many of these growers, his support often came at a time when they had no other home for their grapes. He played a major part in the economic development of the town of Sonoma, and was a significant philanthropist whose charitable gifts included the property for the Sonoma Valley Hospital.
Thank you for voting. Please e-mail completed ballot to "mailto:mwangbickler@balzac.com" or fax to (707) 255-1119.
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Vintners Hall of Fame 2011 Introduction
Thank you for participating in the Vintners Hall of Fame Electoral College. You will decide who will be honored in 2011 for their contributions to California wine.
We vote by acclamation. It's easy: vote for as many candidates as you like. You can vote for everyone on the ballot, just one person, or any number in between. It's entirely up to you.
The top vote getters in each category will enter the Vintners Hall of Fame at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.
The ballot is separated into two categories: the general category, for contemporary nominees, and the Pioneer category, for people who will have been dead for more than 10 years on the induction date.
This separation is purely for balloting convenience. Once inducted, a Hall of Famer is a Hall of Famer.
While you can vote for everyone, the net effect would be that no one would gain a vote over anyone else. It's up to you to make the hard choice between those you believe belong in the Hall in 2011 and those who are not yet at the same level of achievement.
As you can see from the nominee list, the achievement may be in any area: winemaking, viticulture, research, promotion, writing or whatever.
I encourage you to vote thoughtfully, but not to delay. The deadline for submitting your ballot is September 17, 2010. Ballots may be emailed to mwangbickler@balzac.com or faxed to 707-255-1119.
If you have any questions about the voting process, the nominees or the Vintners Hall of Fame, please email Electoral College Chairman W. Blake Gray at "mailto:wblakegray@gmail.com" .
Thanks for voting!
Vintners Hall of Fame 2011 Ballot
Instructions: Vote for as many nominees as you wish. Using MS Word, you should be able to click in the box next to the people that you would like to vote for, save as a new document, and send back to Michael Wangbickler. Or, you can simply send a list of those who you would like to vote for in an email. Please include your name so that we can follow up with you if there are any questions.
Your name (click on grey box and begin typing):
General Category
John A. De Luca
John De Luca served more than 27 years as President and CEO of Wine Institute. Deputy mayor of San Francisco until he started in 1975, he came into the position with no real knowledge of wine. But he had experience in Washington, having worked on national security matters in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. De Luca quickly established his position on the existing regulatory climate with a paper titled "The Neo Prohibitionists." De Luca helped represent the wine industry to Congress during several hostile periods, and successfully opposed a Nickel a Drink tax in 1990. During his tenure in 1995, wine was added to the federal dietary guidelines, and officially recognized by the US government as having cardiovascular benefits. This fundamentally repositioned the way wine is regulated.
Randy Dunn
Randy Dunn established his reputation as winemaker at Caymus Vineyards from 1975 to 1984. An iconoclast who has never joined Napa Valley Vintners or participated in Auction Napa Valley, he has nonetheless led fund-raising efforts for Howell Mountain schools and fire-fighting. He bought his original vineyard property on Howell Mountain in 1972 and opened Dunn Vineyards in 1979. Since then he has maintained an interest in making balanced Cabernet Sauvignon, generally keeping the alcohol below 14%. Dunn is also an advocate for preserving forest. He owns more than 200 acres on Howell Mountain, but has planted only about 30 and has donated 63 to the Napa Valley Land Trust.
Fred Franzia
In 2002 Fred Franzia introduced Charles Shaw wines, varietal vintage wines in bottles for just $2. Within three years he was selling 6 million cases of them, which allowed low income people to have a bottle of wine on the table with dinner. Franzia has also produced inexpensive wines specifically for restaurants as part of the idea that people should drink wine with dinner instead of beer or soda. Franzia has built Bronco Wine Co. into the 4th largest wine company in the United States, with a portfolio entirely of value wines. He has done as much as anyone in the 21st century to make California wine a part of American daily life.
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Josh Jensen
A native Californian, Jensen went to Burgundy after getting his master's degree in anthropology from Oxford and worked two harvests, including one at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Legend has it that he smuggled clones of DRC's Pinot Noir vines to the US in his pants on a trans-Atlantic flight. In any case, he planted Pinot atop Mt. Harlan because of its limestone soils, which he found by searching maps from the state's Bureau of Mines. The location is so remote that it has no electricity, phones or paved roads, but Jensen was convinced it was the perfect terroir. For more than 30 years he has been one of America's leading Pinot Noir makers, making elegant, ageworthy, vineyard-designated wines from a still-primitive location.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Parker took a giant leap of faith in publishing his first Wine Advocate newsletter in 1978. At the time, he was a lawyer who thought wines were not being priced in relation to their quality. Parker's easily understood ratings and user-friendly tasting notes have helped many boutique wineries establish themselves – if Parker gives an unknown wine a high rating, it can sell out without any trouble from the three-tier distribution system that blocks the success of many small wineries. He has been a champion of California wines from the beginning of his career. Parker's prestige has helped project the influence of the American wine community throughout the world, as European wineries now focus more on the American media than on their UK counterparts.
Vince Petrucci
Fom 1948 through 1993, Vince Petrucci built Fresno State's Department of Viticulture and Enology from the ground up. He said he got the job over several other qualified candidates because "I was the only one who could drive a tractor," and that approach characterized his philosophy of education. While UC Davis is known for strong theoretical and experimental research into grapes and wine, Fresno State is known for producing winemakers and grape growers who get their hands dirty. Petrucci's students have fanned out around the world and he has advised wineries in more than 50 countries, but his greatest impact was in California, where his intensive hands-on training produced more than one generation of winemakers and vineyard managers.
Joel Peterson
While working as a microbiologist, Joel Peterson co-founded Ravenswood Winery in 1976 with $4,000, no vineyards and no winery. He had worked with Joseph Swan for five vintages and wanted to make great wine from older vines planted in the right locations, which is how he became a Zinfandel expert, as those were the oldest vines in California. At the time, Zin was mostly known for making sweet pink wine. With his single-vineyard Zins, Peterson was instrumental in showing how well the grape reflects its terroir. Peterson's wines helped preserve some of California's oldest vineyards. In 2001, Ravenswood was sold to Constellation Brands for $148 million, but unlike many winemakers who strike gold, Peterson stayed with Constellation as a senior Vice President and Ravenswood's head winemaker, where he has continued to promote and produce the excellence of single-vineyard Zinfandel.
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Andy Quady
While working at Heublein in the Central Valley in the 1970s, Andy Quady built a small winery behind his house. He made his first Port-style wine in 1975 from Amador County Zinfandel. For several years he made dessert wines on nights and weekends at home. In 1980 he created Essensia from Orange Muscat, an obscure variety. In 1983, he turned Black Muscat into Elysium. He also makes a wine in the style of Amontillado Sherry, and one of California's first artisanal vermouths. Quady elegantly solved the problem of what to call his initial Port-style wine when faced with the issue of Portuguese producers complaining that Port is a place name. Sweet-wine-loving consumers are now able to enjoy Quady Starboard.
Richard Sanford
A Burgundy fan, Sanford graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in geography in 1965 but was immediately drafted. He got out of the Navy in the late 1960s with a passion for Pinot Noir. He drove across Santa Barbara County with a thermometer before settling on a site west of U.S. Highway 101 in the Santa Ynez Valley. For some years Sanford had the west side of the highway to himself; he was the first winemaker to prove the potential for Pinot Noir in the chilly Santa Rita Hills. He founded Sanford Winery in 1981 and spent the next 20 years making some of the best regarded Pinot Noirs from the region. Sanford left his namesake winery in 2005 and founded Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards.
Angelo Sangiacomo
Angelo Sangiacomo and his siblings took over his family's fruit farming operations in the 1950s. In 1969, he planted a 100-acre vineyard with Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. He quickly realized that Sonoma Carneros was Pinot and Chardonnay country. In the early 1980s he converted 400 more acres from fruit trees to wine grapes. Angelo was one of the first Californians to see the value in promoting a vineyard – not a winery – as a brand, and he has actively worked on promotions like hosting annual educational tastings. Sangiacomo Vineyards has evolved to become one of the most respected vineyards in Sonoma County, working with more than 70 different wineries. Angelo's program of dedicating individual rows to different wineries that want them has resulted in some of California's best small-lot Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, and his viticulture is rewarded by having the name Sangiacomo Vineyards appear on more than 30 vineyard-designated wines.
Vernon Singleton
An expert on wine chemistry, Professor Singleton spent more than four decades in the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, retiring in 1991. He published more than 220 papers and four books. Wine: An Introduction for Americans, co-authored with Maynard Amerine, remains among the most widely read books of its kind, even decades after its last printing. Principles and Practices of Winemaking, co-authored with three UC Davis colleagues, is a textbook used worldwide. Professor Singleton is best known for his identification, characterization and transformation of the many phenolic substances in wine, including tannins. He also studied the contributions of barrel aging to wine phenolic composition and the role of oxygen in wine maturation.
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Jed Steele
As vineyard manager and winemaker for Edmeades, Jed Steele was one of the first to show the potential of Anderson Valley grapes. He went to work for Kendall-Jackson in 1983 and developed the slightly sweet Vintners Reserve Chardonnay that has been one of America's favorite wines ever since. He left K-J in 1991 to found Steele Wines and lost a lawsuit to K-J involving "trade secrets" about winemaking. So you won't see many interviews from Steele, but he has continued to make good wines under his own label, Steele Wines, in Kelseyville for the last two decades. His wines were among the first to put Lake County on the map. He has also been director of enology at Villa Mt. Eden and a consulting winemaker for Indian Springs Winery in Nevada County. Steele continues to play a necessarily quiet role in crafting quality California wine.
Charles Sullivan
Charles Sullivan is the leading contemporary historian of California wine. His books include A Companion to California Wine: An Encyclopedia of Wine and Winemaking from the Mission Period to the Present (1998); Napa Wine: A History from Mission Days to the Present (1994); and Zinfandel: A History of a Grape and Its Wine (2003). Sullivan's books have been as important as any in preserving the knowledge of California's wine history for future generations. Disclosure: Sullivan is a member of the Nominating Committee for the Vintners Hall of Fame. He was nominated by other committee members and did not vote for his own inclusion on this ballot.
Bob Trinchero
Bob Trinchero took over Sutter Home Winery in the 1960s, inheriting a mom-and-pop operation that sold generic wines to their Napa Valley neighbors, who filled barrels and bottles at the winery's back door. In 1968 he began making Amador County Zinfandel, purchasing fruit from some of the oldest vines in California. In 1972, looking for a way to make the wine more intense, he drained off some of the juice before fermentation and left some natural sugar in it, calling it "Oeil de Perdrix, A White Zinfandel Wine." Three years later, he dropped Oeil de Perdrix, as he had created what became America's favorite wine for the rest of the millennium. Say what you want about White Zinfandel, it was affordable, introduced non-wine drinkers to wine, and preserved some old Zinfandel vineyards that might have been grafted to Chardonnay or paved for housing. And it made millions of people happy. Trinchero has played a large role in hosting Auction Napa Valley, which has contributed tens of millions of dollars to charity.
Nils Venge
Nils Venge has been one of the most important Cabernet Sauvignon winemakers of the past 30 years. He established his reputation as the first winemaker at Villa Mount Eden in the 1970s. Many California Cabernets have now earned 100 points from Robert Parker, but his 1985 Groth Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon was the first, and that had ripples throughout the wine world. Venge and his father-in-law purchased the property that became Saddleback Cellars in 1976, and in 1993 he left Groth to make it his main focus. However, even today Venge is a sought-after winemaking consultant throughout Napa Valley.
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Pioneer Category
Cesar Chavez
Forced with his family off their Arizona farm by the Great Depression, Cesar Chavez became a migrant farm worker in California at age 11. In 1952, at age 25, he was hired as a community organizer by the Community Service Organization, where he developed his aggressive yet non-violent style of confrontation. In 1962, he and Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers. Their first major labor event was a grape-picking strike in 1965. The UFW encouraged all Americans to boycott table grapes in support of workers' rights. Chavez and the UFW reported illegal immigrants who had been brought in to break the strike, and in 1973 they organized along the US-Mexico border to prevent people from crossing illegally. Thanks to Chavez, the Mexican-American farmworkers achieved greater rights, recognition, and better pay. Chavez also led a boycott of grapes in the 1980s in protest of pesticide use, and fasted for 36 days as part of that protest.
Hamilton Crabb
Hamilton Crabb came to Napa Valley in 1868 and planted a 240-acre vineyard he called To Kalon. Crabb was a pioneer in converting from Mission grapes to vinifera varietals, which he was one of the first in California to graft onto native rootstock. His passion for viticulture led him to create a plant library of more than 400 varieties. He was one of the first to plant and promote Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley. By 1884, he had the largest winery in upper Napa Valley, and was instrumental in earning the region a name for excellence. Crabb's To Kalon vineyard still exists today and is still one of the best regarded vineyards in California.
Richard Graff
Richard Graff was a pioneer of California Pinot Noir. With a loan from his mother in 1965, Graff bought Chalone vineyard, which had been producing mistletoe. He recognized that the limestone soil was similar to terrain he had worked on during a year spent in Burgundy. He restored neglected grapevines and introduced Burgundian methods of winemaking: fermenting in oak barrels imported from France, aging white wines on their lees, and encouraging malolactic fermentation – all anathema in California at the time. He took pains to preserve the character inherent in the microclimate of Chalone’s unusual site. He produced finely crafted Pinot Noir of a quality we now take for granted in California. Demand for his wines far exceeded the supply. Eventually he brought in partners, expanded, and later the enlarged company acquired Acacia, then a leading producer of Pinot Noir in Carneros.
Myron Nightingale
Myron Nightingale began his career as a winemaker in 1944, and by 1949 he was chief chemist at Italian Swiss Colony, one of California's largest wineries. In 1953 he took charge of Livermore's historic Cresta Blanca Winery, guiding the resuscitation of the rundown facility. He made enological history with his Premier Semillon made in the style of Sauternes, in which the botrytis cinerea was actually produced in the laboratory. Nightingale moved to Napa in 1971 to apply his resuscitation skills at the old Beringer Winery, newly purchased by Nestle. As winemaker and director of operations he did far more than just bring the dilapidated facility back to life; he gradually made it a large scale producer of world class varietal wines. The Los Angeles Times called him Beringer's "Angel of Mercy."
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Eugene Hilgard
In 1874 Eugene Hilgard was lured to UC Berkeley from his research post at the University of Michigan. The UC president needed a great scholar to head the College of Agriculture and to pursue research in agriculture science. What Hilgard found in California was a land whose soil and climate were perfect for winegrowing. And yet the state's young wine industry was struggling, its wines were generally of poor quality, and its most promising wine lands had been invaded by phylloxera. Hilgard spent 25 years leading a statewide movement to remedy the situation. He created a unit at UC devoted to viticulture and enology, the first in the nation, and today the greatest. He organized courses, recruited faculty, and reached out a helping hand to the state's winegrowers. By 1894 the College had published its 100th technical bulletin, more than half devoted to viticulture and enology, all supplied free to all who asked. He traveled the state continually, and knew personally all its leading winegrowers. Hilgard's ideals and the program he founded are still evident today in UC Davis' department of Viticulture and Enology.
Charles LeFranc
Charles LeFranc was the father of commercial winegrowing in today’s Silicon Valley. He came to California in 1850 and went to work for a Frenchman who had planted a few grapes south of San Jose at the head of the Almaden Valley. By 1857 LeFranc was in charge of the estate and the next year made the first commercially important import of French grape varieties. In five years he was marketing California’s first Cabernet Sauvignon. He expanded his import by grafting a few buds onto native vines, a first in California viticultural history. Year after year his Almaden Winery wines took the lion’s share of medals at Bay Area fairs. Charles Krug claimed LeFranc’s Riesling was the best in the state. LeFranc's success grew in the 1870s, when the rest of the state’s wine industry was beaten almost to death by a national depression.
August Sebastiani
August Sebastiani, the youngest of three children, purchased Sebastiani winery from his father's estate in 1952 and developed it into what was at the time of his death in 1980 the 6th largest winery in the U.S. As his father had, August sold mostly jug wines, increasing production by more than 100 times over three decades. He was the first California vintner to make affordable varietal wines in magnum sizes. August Sebastiani was an enormous source of support for major growers in key wine growing regions including Alexander Valley, Lodi and Napa and Sonoma Valley. For many of these growers, his support often came at a time when they had no other home for their grapes. He played a major part in the economic development of the town of Sonoma, and was a significant philanthropist whose charitable gifts included the property for the Sonoma Valley Hospital.
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American Wine Industry Hall of Fame
Originated September 25, 2008, 1st mod., December 14, 2008, 2nd mod June 21,2009.
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American Wine Industry Hall of Fame, Museum and Foundation OVERVIEW
There is still a great deal of detail to be developed before the AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation could be fully implemented, but we are well along the way and encourage all interested parties to contact us about their interest in participating in its development and growth, and to provide recommendations and comments. The web site: http://www.amerwine.blogspot.com/">>contains more information about our American Wine Industry program recommendations.
In 2006, our founder, John M. Olney, was selected by the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) as one of the top wine writers in America to participate in the voting process to select the inaugural inductees of the California-based wine industry individuals to the “California Vintners Hall of Fame.” In 2007, he was added to the Nominating Committee as well as continuing to be one of the wine writers casting his ballot for the selection of inductees. In 2008, CIA altered the format of the nominating and voting process for potential inductees by established the California Vintners Hall of Fame Electoral College of which Mr. Olney continues to serve on the nominating committee and is one of the 44 voting member that select the current round of inductees.
As he studied the ballot and voting process he quickly surmised that what is lacking is a program whereby not only individuals but organizations could and should be recognized from the entire country for their contribution to the American Wine Industry. Olney pointed out to his associates:
"Just as the early settlers migrated from the East to California, so did winemaking in America. These men and women who developed the initial industry in the East & South and Mid States deserve their place in the history of American Wine.
To not consider these early winemaking men and women would be like not including the great American efforts of John Glenn and his first orbit of earth and then start our space travel program with the Shuttle flights.
Therefore, we should initiate an America wide awards program that recognizes those of all 50 states and territories who have made significant contribution to wine growing, production, marketing, distribution and sales to the consumer from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico."
Purpose of the AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation There a number of important reasons why the American Wine Industry should be recognized for its value to the American lifestyle. Principal among these are:
To educate the public regarding the origin, development and growth of wine production as an important part of American culture.
To promote the positive values of wine in the lifestyles of Americans.
"To assist in the development and preservation of the history of the American Wine Industry (AWI) through the spoken and printed word, radio, TV, film/DVD and the Internet
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY MUSEUM
Purpose: To find, collect, preserve and display to the general public documents and artifacts of the various eras and regions of the American Wine Industry. Changing exhibits will be used to draw repeat visits to the museum by wine consumers as well as those from the wine industry itself.
Facility Projects and Programs:Building space will be dedicated to regional wine producing areas described elsewhere in this proposal and to the various sugar containing feedstock’s from which wine has been and is now being made throughout the USA.
To draw paying visitors to the building facilities and grounds the AWI organization would produce events such as listed below:American grape varietals Hybrid grape varietals Other feedstock’s
Invited speakersfrom the various regions throughout the USA and its Territories
Collected memorabilia and artifacts from the various regions hroughout the USA and its Territories
Theme wine tasting events in the following categories pe fruits Berries Honey Indigenous
REGIONS Two events per year dedicated to featuring the wines of each of the 12 sub-regions of the USA described elsewhere in this document.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME (AWIHOF)
EXISTING STATE HOF PROGRAMS The origin of the AWI HOF and Foundation is derived from the observation that a number of larger wine producing States has programs that identify and recognize the contributions made by individuals and organizations to the advancement of wine production within that particular State.
Ohio then to http://www.ohiowines.org/hall_of_fame.shtml
Washington The Hall of Fame by the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center: http://www.walterclore.com/
California Culinary Institute of America - California Vintners Hall of
Fame www.womenforwinesense.org
Wine Media Guild
There is one wine writer’s HOF selection and induction organization: the four trustees of this region - voted into office in even number years http://winemediaguild.org/about-the-wine-media-guild/ then to http://winemediaguild.org/hall-of-fame-inductees-2007/
There are also a number of food and wine type societies/institutions that sponsor somewhat similar programs to those State wine organizations mentioned above but rely mostly on popularity votes and thus are not true HOF programs based on contribution over longevity.
Regional Definitions
Because Mr. Olney found that there is such diversity in the source of the fermentable juices used and styles in wine producing areas of America, he recommends that the recognition of individuals and organizations should be conducted on a regional basis possibly as segmented as follows: (These numbers are based of 2005 count and are in the process of being updated at this time to reflect the best estimated as of December 2009
West (2079)
The nominees are voted upon by members of the wine industry. Individuals employed in the industry must register with the AWIHOF office establishing their credentials as performing in some capacity within one or more of the seven wine industry categories previously detailed.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
Mission StatementTo educate the public regarding the origin, development and growth of wine production as an important part of American culture.
To promote the positive values of wine in the lifestyles of Americans.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation will be a qualifying 501 non-profit company established with a Board of Trustees, slate of officers and paid staff members, augmented by a volunteer work group to document the history of wine in America, provide tours, information services to on-tine visitors of both buildings & grounds and Internet Web sites of the AWI.
Board of Trustees The founding trustees will be selected by the founding funding sponsors and they would serve a three- year period in office and then would implement future selections of trustees in a manner such as Mr. Olney describes below
At-Large Trustees ( 5 ) - They will serve four-year terms. These individuals will be nominated and voted upon by the registered members of the wine industry.
Trustee of Qualified Other HOF Organizations( 6 ) - They will serve three-year terms. Mr. Olney suggests that a permanent seat be offered to each of the existing HOF organizations cited earlier in this presentation, and any such organization in the future that the Board of Trustee feels is a legitimate representative of some field of the AWI. These organizations will nominate and vote for their selected representative to the Board.
Regional Trustees (24) - They will serve two-year terms. He suggests that initially two (2) willing parties be located from within each of the 12 regional areas cited earlier in this presentation, to be the first occupants of the Regional Trustee seats. Thereafter these seats would be selected by nomination and voting by only members within each of the respective 12 regions.
The full Board of Trustees will select the following positions from among their membership:Chairperson1st Vice Chairperson 2nd Vice Chairperson SecretaryTreasurer
Executive Committee (11) The Board of Trustees would select an Executive Committee from among their composition to oversee the routine operations of the staff officers, salaried/waged employees, volunteers and program effectiveness, This committee will be composed of the following membership:
Two (2) from the At-Large category - They serve a four year term. They are selected by vote of the five Trustees of this category
One (1) from the Other HOF category - Serves a three year term and is selected by vote of the six Trustees of this category
Eight (8) from the Regional category with two each from the four geographical areas of the 12 regions listed above. These members will serve two-year terms.
They are selected by vote of the Trustees of this category in the following
manner:
Two from the West
the eight trustees of the region - voted into
office in even number years
Two from the East:the six trustees of this region - voted into office in odd number years.
Two from the South:the six trustees of this region - voted into office in odd number years
Two from the GL and MW
Board Committees:
The Board may establish ad hoc committees as its membership deems appropriate but there will be the following standing committees of the board which are filled by voluntary commitment:
Finance and Audit
- Presiding member Treasure Program Development - Presiding member 1st Vice Chairperson Public Awareness and Promotion - Presiding member 2nd Vice Chairperson Facility and Property Operations and Maintenance - Presiding member Secretary
1. California (1200 wineries)
2. Washington (460)
3. Oregon (300)
4. Other (119) Coast : (5) - AK (3), HI (2), Territories (0)
Inland: (114) - AZ (24), CO (40), ID (23), NM (20), NV (1) , UT (6
East (328)
5. NY (179)
6. PA (70)
7. Other East (79) - CT (10), DE (1), ME (3), MA (12), MD (12), NH (2), NJ (24), RI(5), VT (10), Territories (0)
South (328)
8. VA (90)
9. TX (60)
10. Other South (178)
Gulf: ( 96) - AL (24), FL (14),LA (3), MS (55)
Inland: (37) - AK (4), , GA (20) , KY (7), TN (6),
Atlantic: (45) - NC (10), SC (24), WV (11)
Great Lakes and Central (287)
11. Central: (109)IA (20), KS (8), MO (50), MT (5), NE (5),ND (1), OK (15), SD (4), WY (1)
12. Great Lakes (178)IL (40), IN (30), MI (40), MN (16), OH (40), WI (12)
As currently envisioned, Hall of Fame floor display space would be dedicated to each of the 12 regional areas shown above.
Nominations for consideration of induction into the Hall of Fame
Anybody can nominate individuals and organizations to be considered for the HOF. Unlike other wine related HOF organ-ization sponsors, Mr. Olney does not believe it is a true reflection of the impacts on the American Wine Industry if the selection criteria is to only allow individual names to be considered since there are a number of influences that were developed on a team basis - whether university or private industry - wherein multiple contributors created a particularly valuable improvement to the American Wine Industry. Therefore Mr. Olney recommends that there be six categories in which individuals and organizations can be nominated for induction into the HOF as listed below:
Growers: Grapes, Fruits, Berries, Honey (Mead), Other sugar based feedstock resources
Vintners
Winemakers
These are the people who actually make the wine
Owners
These are the individual, famiiies and companies that envisioned the business and funded it and may or may not have been actively involved in the hands on operation of the facilities
universities scientists
Individuals
Institutions/Corporations Marketing and Public Relations
Individuals
Institutions/Corporations
Organizations – Printed, TV, Radio, Internet websites, movies/DVD
Writers – Columnists, Blogs, Historians, reporters, newsletters,
Distributors and Retailers
Institutions/Corporations
eriods of American Wine Industry History
Mr. Olney feels that the annual inductees might be derived in accordance with the following guidelines,“We are leaning towards selecting individuals and organization from each of what we call the three distinct periods of wine production within American. By doing what we s propose, we can offer each generation the opportunity to recognize those with whom their wine experiences were developed. This also ensures that history is retained by inducting those who came way before any of us in the industry today.”
The three eras that Olney recommends are briefly described below:
"Initialization and Migration" This period is defined as the time from the first arrival of foreigners to the new world up to year about 1825, with the start of America’s great period when it was declared that it ‘was our manifest destiny to make the United States, one country reaching from coast to coast.” This became part of what is known as "The Monroe Doctrine. " Wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s
"Expansionism and Refinement”
The period from about 1825 through the enactment of Prohibition against the commercial production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in 1920 including the period of bootlegging of spirits, beer and wine until Repeal in 1933. This is the period when grape wine moved from just American varietals and their "foxy" taste to the palette, into production using European varietals with a much more refined after-taste. Wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s.
"Resurrection and Perfection" This era commences with Repeal of Prohibition in 1933 to the present and constitutes the period when winemaking retreated from sweet, fortified wines and moved back to premium varietals and excellent generic wines produced in mass quantities. Meanwhile, wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s.
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American Wine Industry Hall of Fame, Museum and Foundation OVERVIEW
There is still a great deal of detail to be developed before the AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation could be fully implemented, but we are well along the way and encourage all interested parties to contact us about their interest in participating in its development and growth, and to provide recommendations and comments. The web site: http://www.amerwine.blogspot.com/">>contains more information about our American Wine Industry program recommendations.
In 2006, our founder, John M. Olney, was selected by the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) as one of the top wine writers in America to participate in the voting process to select the inaugural inductees of the California-based wine industry individuals to the “California Vintners Hall of Fame.” In 2007, he was added to the Nominating Committee as well as continuing to be one of the wine writers casting his ballot for the selection of inductees. In 2008, CIA altered the format of the nominating and voting process for potential inductees by established the California Vintners Hall of Fame Electoral College of which Mr. Olney continues to serve on the nominating committee and is one of the 44 voting member that select the current round of inductees.
As he studied the ballot and voting process he quickly surmised that what is lacking is a program whereby not only individuals but organizations could and should be recognized from the entire country for their contribution to the American Wine Industry. Olney pointed out to his associates:
"Just as the early settlers migrated from the East to California, so did winemaking in America. These men and women who developed the initial industry in the East & South and Mid States deserve their place in the history of American Wine.
To not consider these early winemaking men and women would be like not including the great American efforts of John Glenn and his first orbit of earth and then start our space travel program with the Shuttle flights.
Therefore, we should initiate an America wide awards program that recognizes those of all 50 states and territories who have made significant contribution to wine growing, production, marketing, distribution and sales to the consumer from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico."
Purpose of the AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation There a number of important reasons why the American Wine Industry should be recognized for its value to the American lifestyle. Principal among these are:
To educate the public regarding the origin, development and growth of wine production as an important part of American culture.
To promote the positive values of wine in the lifestyles of Americans.
"To assist in the development and preservation of the history of the American Wine Industry (AWI) through the spoken and printed word, radio, TV, film/DVD and the Internet
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY MUSEUM
Purpose: To find, collect, preserve and display to the general public documents and artifacts of the various eras and regions of the American Wine Industry. Changing exhibits will be used to draw repeat visits to the museum by wine consumers as well as those from the wine industry itself.
Facility Projects and Programs:Building space will be dedicated to regional wine producing areas described elsewhere in this proposal and to the various sugar containing feedstock’s from which wine has been and is now being made throughout the USA.
To draw paying visitors to the building facilities and grounds the AWI organization would produce events such as listed below:American grape varietals Hybrid grape varietals Other feedstock’s
Invited speakersfrom the various regions throughout the USA and its Territories
Collected memorabilia and artifacts from the various regions hroughout the USA and its Territories
Theme wine tasting events in the following categories pe fruits Berries Honey Indigenous
REGIONS Two events per year dedicated to featuring the wines of each of the 12 sub-regions of the USA described elsewhere in this document.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME (AWIHOF)
EXISTING STATE HOF PROGRAMS The origin of the AWI HOF and Foundation is derived from the observation that a number of larger wine producing States has programs that identify and recognize the contributions made by individuals and organizations to the advancement of wine production within that particular State.
Ohio then to http://www.ohiowines.org/hall_of_fame.shtml
Washington The Hall of Fame by the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center: http://www.walterclore.com/
California Culinary Institute of America - California Vintners Hall of
Fame www.womenforwinesense.org
Wine Media Guild
There is one wine writer’s HOF selection and induction organization: the four trustees of this region - voted into office in even number years http://winemediaguild.org/about-the-wine-media-guild/ then to http://winemediaguild.org/hall-of-fame-inductees-2007/
There are also a number of food and wine type societies/institutions that sponsor somewhat similar programs to those State wine organizations mentioned above but rely mostly on popularity votes and thus are not true HOF programs based on contribution over longevity.
Regional Definitions
Because Mr. Olney found that there is such diversity in the source of the fermentable juices used and styles in wine producing areas of America, he recommends that the recognition of individuals and organizations should be conducted on a regional basis possibly as segmented as follows: (These numbers are based of 2005 count and are in the process of being updated at this time to reflect the best estimated as of December 2009
West (2079)
The nominees are voted upon by members of the wine industry. Individuals employed in the industry must register with the AWIHOF office establishing their credentials as performing in some capacity within one or more of the seven wine industry categories previously detailed.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
Mission StatementTo educate the public regarding the origin, development and growth of wine production as an important part of American culture.
To promote the positive values of wine in the lifestyles of Americans.
AMERICAN WINE INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The AWI Museum, HOF and Foundation will be a qualifying 501 non-profit company established with a Board of Trustees, slate of officers and paid staff members, augmented by a volunteer work group to document the history of wine in America, provide tours, information services to on-tine visitors of both buildings & grounds and Internet Web sites of the AWI.
Board of Trustees The founding trustees will be selected by the founding funding sponsors and they would serve a three- year period in office and then would implement future selections of trustees in a manner such as Mr. Olney describes below
At-Large Trustees ( 5 ) - They will serve four-year terms. These individuals will be nominated and voted upon by the registered members of the wine industry.
Trustee of Qualified Other HOF Organizations( 6 ) - They will serve three-year terms. Mr. Olney suggests that a permanent seat be offered to each of the existing HOF organizations cited earlier in this presentation, and any such organization in the future that the Board of Trustee feels is a legitimate representative of some field of the AWI. These organizations will nominate and vote for their selected representative to the Board.
Regional Trustees (24) - They will serve two-year terms. He suggests that initially two (2) willing parties be located from within each of the 12 regional areas cited earlier in this presentation, to be the first occupants of the Regional Trustee seats. Thereafter these seats would be selected by nomination and voting by only members within each of the respective 12 regions.
The full Board of Trustees will select the following positions from among their membership:Chairperson1st Vice Chairperson 2nd Vice Chairperson SecretaryTreasurer
Executive Committee (11) The Board of Trustees would select an Executive Committee from among their composition to oversee the routine operations of the staff officers, salaried/waged employees, volunteers and program effectiveness, This committee will be composed of the following membership:
Two (2) from the At-Large category - They serve a four year term. They are selected by vote of the five Trustees of this category
One (1) from the Other HOF category - Serves a three year term and is selected by vote of the six Trustees of this category
Eight (8) from the Regional category with two each from the four geographical areas of the 12 regions listed above. These members will serve two-year terms.
They are selected by vote of the Trustees of this category in the following
manner:
Two from the West
the eight trustees of the region - voted into
office in even number years
Two from the East:the six trustees of this region - voted into office in odd number years.
Two from the South:the six trustees of this region - voted into office in odd number years
Two from the GL and MW
Board Committees:
The Board may establish ad hoc committees as its membership deems appropriate but there will be the following standing committees of the board which are filled by voluntary commitment:
Finance and Audit
- Presiding member Treasure Program Development - Presiding member 1st Vice Chairperson Public Awareness and Promotion - Presiding member 2nd Vice Chairperson Facility and Property Operations and Maintenance - Presiding member Secretary
1. California (1200 wineries)
2. Washington (460)
3. Oregon (300)
4. Other (119) Coast : (5) - AK (3), HI (2), Territories (0)
Inland: (114) - AZ (24), CO (40), ID (23), NM (20), NV (1) , UT (6
East (328)
5. NY (179)
6. PA (70)
7. Other East (79) - CT (10), DE (1), ME (3), MA (12), MD (12), NH (2), NJ (24), RI(5), VT (10), Territories (0)
South (328)
8. VA (90)
9. TX (60)
10. Other South (178)
Gulf: ( 96) - AL (24), FL (14),LA (3), MS (55)
Inland: (37) - AK (4), , GA (20) , KY (7), TN (6),
Atlantic: (45) - NC (10), SC (24), WV (11)
Great Lakes and Central (287)
11. Central: (109)IA (20), KS (8), MO (50), MT (5), NE (5),ND (1), OK (15), SD (4), WY (1)
12. Great Lakes (178)IL (40), IN (30), MI (40), MN (16), OH (40), WI (12)
As currently envisioned, Hall of Fame floor display space would be dedicated to each of the 12 regional areas shown above.
Nominations for consideration of induction into the Hall of Fame
Anybody can nominate individuals and organizations to be considered for the HOF. Unlike other wine related HOF organ-ization sponsors, Mr. Olney does not believe it is a true reflection of the impacts on the American Wine Industry if the selection criteria is to only allow individual names to be considered since there are a number of influences that were developed on a team basis - whether university or private industry - wherein multiple contributors created a particularly valuable improvement to the American Wine Industry. Therefore Mr. Olney recommends that there be six categories in which individuals and organizations can be nominated for induction into the HOF as listed below:
Growers: Grapes, Fruits, Berries, Honey (Mead), Other sugar based feedstock resources
Vintners
Winemakers
These are the people who actually make the wine
Owners
These are the individual, famiiies and companies that envisioned the business and funded it and may or may not have been actively involved in the hands on operation of the facilities
universities scientists
Individuals
Institutions/Corporations Marketing and Public Relations
Individuals
Institutions/Corporations
Organizations – Printed, TV, Radio, Internet websites, movies/DVD
Writers – Columnists, Blogs, Historians, reporters, newsletters,
Distributors and Retailers
Institutions/Corporations
eriods of American Wine Industry History
Mr. Olney feels that the annual inductees might be derived in accordance with the following guidelines,“We are leaning towards selecting individuals and organization from each of what we call the three distinct periods of wine production within American. By doing what we s propose, we can offer each generation the opportunity to recognize those with whom their wine experiences were developed. This also ensures that history is retained by inducting those who came way before any of us in the industry today.”
The three eras that Olney recommends are briefly described below:
"Initialization and Migration" This period is defined as the time from the first arrival of foreigners to the new world up to year about 1825, with the start of America’s great period when it was declared that it ‘was our manifest destiny to make the United States, one country reaching from coast to coast.” This became part of what is known as "The Monroe Doctrine. " Wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s
"Expansionism and Refinement”
The period from about 1825 through the enactment of Prohibition against the commercial production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in 1920 including the period of bootlegging of spirits, beer and wine until Repeal in 1933. This is the period when grape wine moved from just American varietals and their "foxy" taste to the palette, into production using European varietals with a much more refined after-taste. Wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s.
"Resurrection and Perfection" This era commences with Repeal of Prohibition in 1933 to the present and constitutes the period when winemaking retreated from sweet, fortified wines and moved back to premium varietals and excellent generic wines produced in mass quantities. Meanwhile, wines were also being produced using non-grape feedstock’s.
Voting for AWI Hall of Fame Inductions>
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
REFERENCE LIBRARY
PERSONAL REFERENCE LIBRARY OF JOHN M. OLNEY
(PAMPHLETS/BOOKLETS/ETC., PUBLISHED WITHOUT LISTED AUTHOR/EDITOR and HISTORY BOOKS are listed after the alphabetical listing of wine-related book authors)
(PB) = Paperback
WINE-RELATED
“Aaron, Jan (assisted by Leslie Jay)"
"Wine Routes of America - 89 (PB)",1989,"1st ed", "E. P. Dutton"
"Adams, Leon D.”
"Commonsense Book of Wine, The",1958,"1st ed","David McKay Co. , Inc."
“Commonsense Book of Wine, The (PB)",1964,"2nd ed., rev.ed.", "David McKay Co. , Inc."
"Wines of America, The ",1973,"1st ed, 1st prtng signed","The S.F. Book Co./Houghton Mifflin Co."
“Wines of America, The (2 copies)",1973,"1st ed, 2nd prtng", "The S.F. Book Co./Houghton Mifflin Co."
"Commonsense Book of Wine, The (PB)",1975,"3rd ed., rev. expanded","SF Book Co./Houghton Mufflin Co.."
"Wines of America, The - 78",1978,"2nd ed., rev.","McGraw-Hill"
"Adams, Peter"
"Wine Lover's Quiz Book, TRhe (PB)",1987,"1st ed", "HP Books"
"Ambrosi, Hans"
"Where the Great German Wines Grow",1976,"1st ed", "Hastings House"
“Amerine, Berg & Cruess"
"Technology of Wine Making, The (was property of M. Mondavi bel)",1972,"3rd ed.","AVI"
"Amerine, M.A. & Joslyn"
"Table Wines",1951,"1st ed.","Univ. of CA Press"
"Table Wines, The Technology of Their Production",1970,"2nd ed. cc 1951","Univ. of Calif."
"Amerine, Maynard A. & Roessler, Edward B."
"Wines, Their Sensory Evaluation",1976,"1st","Freeman"
"Amerine, M.A. & Singleton, V.L."
"Wine (Was property of Sam Sebastiani)",1966,"2nd prtng c1965","Univ. of CA Press"
"Wine (PB)",1967,"3rd prtng c1965","Univ. of CA Press"
"Wine (PB)",1977,"2nd ed. c65","Univ Calif Press"
"Amerine, Thompson Bob, Muscatine"
"California Wine, Book of (84)",1984,"1st ed.","UCB Press"
"Amis, Kingsley"
"On Drink (PB)",1974,"c1970","Panther Books Ltd"
"Amorose, M. A.",
"Cailfornia Wines, A Catalog of (PB-Binder) # 2",1980,"1st prtng","Amorose, M.A."
"Cailfornia Wines, A Catalog of (PB-Binder) # 3",1983,"1st prtng","Amorose, M.A."
"California Wines, A Catalog of (85) (PB-Binder) # 4",1985,"4th Ed","Amorose, Michael A."
"Cailfornia Wines, A Catalog of 87 (PB-Binder) # 5",1987,"1st prtng","Amorose, M.A."
"California Wines, A Catalog of # 6",1989,"6th ed","Aurthur Young & Co."
"Anderson, Burton"
"Wines of Italy",1986,"1st ed.","Italian Trade Commission, NY"
"Wines of Italy - The quality of life (PB)",1992,"1st ed.","Italian Trade Commission, NY"
"Anderson/Hull"
"Art of Making Wine, The , (2 copies)",1970,"Amer. ed.","Hawthorne"
"Asher, George"
"On Wine ( 2 copies)",1982,"1st ed 11th prtng, c1972","Random House"
"Balzzer, Robert L."
"Adventures in Wine (Poss signed)",1969,"2nd prntng 11/69, 1st 9/69","Ward Ritchie Press"
"Barron, Cheryll Aimee"
"Dreamers of the Valley of Plenty-a portrait of the Napa Valley",1995,"1st ed.","Scribner"
"Batchelor, Denzil"
"Wines Great & Small",1969,"1st ed.","Cassell & Co., Inc."
"Baus, Herbert M."
"How to Wine Your Way to Good Health",1973,"2nd printing","Mason & Lipscomb"
"Beckett, Fiona"
"Wine Uncorked",1999,"1st ed. USA","Willow Creek/Octopus"
"Benson, Robert, (et al)
"Great Winemakers of California",1977,"1st ed.","Capra Press"
"Berry, C.J.J."
"First Steps in Winemaking (PB)","1974c","4th ed, 35th impression","Amateur Winemaking Publications Ltd."
"First Steps in Winemaking (PB)",1975,"11/75, 5th ed, 3rd impression","Amateur Winemaking Publications Ltd."
"Berstein, Leonard"
"Official Guide to Wine Snobbery (PB)",1982,"1st ed","William Morrow and Co., Inc."
"Bespaloff, Alexis"
"Wine, The Signet Book of (PB)",1971,"1st ed. 1st prntng (cc71)","Signet"
"Guide to Wine, Family Circle - 73 ",1973,"5th ed","NY Times Publishing Co. "
"Inexpense Wines, Guide to",1975,"2nd ed., cc 1973","Simon & Schuster"
"Fireside Book of Wine, The (an anthology-collection of writers)",1977,"1st ed.","Simon & Schuster"
"Wine, The Signet Book of (PB)",1980,"Rev. Ed. 1st prntng (cc71)","Signet"
"Wine, The Signet Book of (PB)",1986,"3rd ed. rev. & exp. jan. 85","Signet"
"Bickham. Jack M."
"Winemakers, The",1977,"1st","Doubleday & Co., Inc."
"Blue, Anthony Dias"
"American Wine (85) signed copy “,1985,"1st ed.","Doubleday & Co., Inc."
“American Wine “, 1985,"1st ed.","Doubleday & Co., Inc."
"American Wine",1988,"1st ed","Harper & Row"
"Buyer's Guide to American Wine (PB)",1988,"1st ed.","Harper & Row"
"Braasch, Barbara J. - Editor "
"California, Northern - Travel Guide - Sunset - 86 (PB)",1986,"5/86, 5th. ed./prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California, Northern - Travel Guide - Sunset - 86 (PB)",1986,"5/86, 5th. ed./prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"Broadbent, Michael"
"Great Vintage Wine Book, The",1980,"1st ed","Knopf"
"Complete Guide on Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars",1984,"1st ed from cmbng prev bks","Simon and Schuster"
"Brook, Foster"
"Wines of California (PB)",1999,"1st ed.","Faber & Faber"
"Brook, Steph"
"Liquid Gold - dessert wines of the world (PB)",1987,"1st publication","Constable"
"Buti, Bruno"
"Rumbling Wine Barrels (Prohib wine running in Napa/Sonoma-SF )",1994,"1st Ed","Buti Pub."
"Caldewey, Jeffrey"
"Wine Tour: Napa Valley - 79 (PB)",1979,"1st ed.","Vintage Image"
"Napa Valley Wine Tour - 81 (PB)",1981,"1st prtng","Vintage Image Books"
"Napa Valley Wine Tour (PB) 84",1984,"multi id.'s","Wine Apreciation Guild"
"Napa Valley Wine Tour (PB) 88",1988,"multi id.'s","Wine Apreciation Guild"
"Chappellet, Molly"
"A Vineyard Garden",1991,"1st ed.","Viking Studio Books"
"Chroman, Nathan"
"Treasury of American Wines, The (Photo's by Jack Cakebread)",1973,"1st ed.","Crown Pub."
"Church, Ruth Ellen (aka Mary Meade)"
"American Guide to Wines, The",1963,"1st ed","Quadrangle Books"
"American Guide to Wines, The (PB)",1963,"1st ed","Quadrangle Books"
"American Guide to Wines, The (PB)",1968,"1st PB ed.","Funk & Wagnalle "
"Entertaining With Wine",1976,"1st printing","Rand McNally"
"Churchill, Creighton"
"World of Wines, The (PB)",1967,"1st ed. PB-Collier 63, 64","Collier Books"
"Guide to Great Wine Rivers, The",1971,"1st prntg","McMillian"
"Clarke, Oz"
"Essential Wine Book, The (PB)",1988,"2nd ed rev. uptd c85","Fireside /Simon & Schuster"
"Conaway, James"
"Napa ",1990,"1st ed ","Avon/Hearst"
"Napa (PB marked up copy)",1992,"1st ed PB, Apr 92","Avon/Hearst"
"Far Side of Eden, The (PB)",2002,"1st ed.","Mariner Books"
"Cox, Jeff"
"From Vines to Wines",1988,"2nd ed., 1st PB prntng","Garden Way Pub."
"Dallas, Phillip"
"Italian Wines (PB)",1989,"3rd ed c1974","Faber and Faber"
"Darlington, David"
"Angles Visits (about Zinfandel)",1991,"1st ed","Henry Holt"
"De Avila, Edie"
"Great Wine Puzzle Book, Vol. 1, The (PB) ",1986,"1st ed","Oakwood / Book Pub."
"De Groot, Roy Andres"
"Wines of California and the Pacific Northwest, The",1982,"1st ed.","Summit Books"
"De Lude, Michelle S."
"California Winery Tours 93 (PB)",1993,"1st ed.","Auto Club of SOCAL"
"Dekovic, Gene"
"This Blessed Land (Photo Journal features R. Mondavi Co.)",1981,"1st","Illuminations Press"
"Devilliers, Marq"
"Heartbreak Grape, The (in search of Pinot Noir) (PB)",1995,"1st ed PB","Harper Perennial"
"Djekich, Nadja"
"California Winery Tours - 95 (PB)",1995,"1st ed","Auto. Club of So. Calif."
"Doroziynski, Alexander & Bell, Bibiane"
"Wine Book, The",1969,"1st ed","Golden Press"
"Ensrud, Barbara"
"Pocket Guide to Wine, The (PB)",1980,"1st prntng","Pedigree book"
"Fadiman, Clifton & Aaron, Sam"
"Wine Buyers Guide",1977,"1st printing","Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
"Fessler, Julius H."
"Guidelines to Practical Winemaking (PB)",1971,"4th prtng, c1968","Fessler, Julius H."
"Finigan, Robert"
"Essentials of Wine",1987,"1st ed.","Knopf"
"Fish, Tim/Melnik, Peg"
"Napa & Sonoma Book, The (PB)",1996,"3rd ed.","Berkshire House"
"Gayot, Andre/Gault, Millau"
"Best Wineries of North America, Guide to - 93 (PB) (2 copies)",1993,"1st ed","Andre Gayot Publications"
"Gibbs, William H., III - reviews by"
"Central Coast Wine Tour: - 80 (PB) , copies)",1980,"1st ed","Vintage Image Books"
"Gillette & Gillette"
"Book of Wine, Playboy's",1974,"1st ed.","Playboy Press"
"Gleeson, Bill"
"Backroad Wineries of California (PB) 85",1985,"1st ed.","Chronicle Books"
"Backroad Wineries of California (PB) 89",1989,"1st ed.","Chronicle Books"
"Gold, Richard M., M.D."
"How & Why to build a Wine Cellar (PB)",1986,"2nd ed., rev prntn","Gold - Self Pub"
"Graham. Jerry & Catherine"
"Bay Area Backroads 88 (PB) ",1988,"1st","Harper & Row"
"More Bay Area Backroads 88 (PB) ",1990,"1st","Harper & Row"
"Grossman, Harold J."
"Wines, Spirits & Beer, Grossman's Guide to",1974,"5th Rev. Ed. c40,43,55,64","Scribner's"
"Halliday, James"
"Wine Atlas of Califonia",1993,"1st amer ed.","Viking"
"Hannum, Hurst & Blumberg, Robert S."
"California, The Fine Wines of - 71 ",1971,"1st ed","Doubleday & Co. Inc."
"California, The Fine Wines of - 73 (PB) ",1973,"Rev. c1971,1973","Doubleday & Co. Inc."
"California, Fine wines of (PB)",1984,"3rd ed.","Doubleday & Co. Inc."
"Hanson, Anthony"
"Burgandy ",1982,"1st ed","Faber and Faber"
"Burgandy (PB)",1983,"reprtnd 83","Faber and Faber"
"Hawks, Ellen"
"Blood & Wine - The Gallo Family (Unauthorized story)",1993,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Heintz, William F."
"Wine Country-A History of NV-The Early Years: 1838-1920",1990,"1st ed.","Capra Press (index created by John M. Olney)"
"Henriques, E. Frank"
"Encyclopedia of Wines, The Signet (PB)",1975,"1st prtng 11/75 PB","Signet"
"Encyclopedia of Wines, The Signet (PB)",1984,"1st prt 2nd ed. rev. (PB)","Signet"
"Hinkle, Richard Paul"
"Central Coast Wine Book 80 (PB)",1980,"1st","Vintage Image Book"
"Howell, Patton, Edited by"
"Napa Valley (PB) (Collection of essays by many modern figures)" ,2000,"1st ed.","Saybrook Publishing Co."
"Jackson, David & Schuster, Danny"
"Production of Grapes & Wine in Cool Climates",1987,"Rev. & enlarged. c1981","Buttersworth"
"Jamidon, Ian"
"Pocket Guide to German Wines (PB(",1984,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Jeffs, Julian"
"Sherry (PB)",1992,"4th ed c1961","Faber and Faber"
"Johnson, Hugh"
"World Atlas of Wine",1971,"1st ed, 1st prtng c1971","Simon and Schuster"
"World Atlas of Wine",1971,"1st ed, 3rd prtng c1971","Simon and Schuster"
“World Atlas of Wine",1974,"Rev. Ed., c1966","Simon & Schuster"
"Wine (PB)",1974,"Rev. 7updtd Ed., c1966","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1977,"1st prntng","Simon & Schuster"
"World Atlas of Wine (2 copies)",1978,"9th prntng, rev. and enlarged c1971","Simon and Schuster"
"Modern Encyclopedia of Wine",1983,"1st ed.","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1985,"9th ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine, the 10 th anniv. 87",1987,"11th ed.","Simon & Schuster"
"Modern Encyclopedia of Wine",1987,"2nd ed, rev updtd.","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1990,"14th ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1992,"16th ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1993,"rev ed 1st ed = 1977","Fireside/Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine 97 (PB)",1997,"21st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1997,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine (PB)",1998,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Jones, Idwal"
"Vineyard, The (Rprnt of '42 classic novel pre-prohbtn Napa) (PB)",1997,"1st prtng c1942","Univ. of Calif. Press"
"Joseph, Robert"
"Wines of the Americas, The - 92",1992,"1st ed","Book Express"
"Katz Group"
"California Exerience-Wine Country North Coast (PB)",1992,,"Inside Publication"
"Kaufman, William S."
"Pocket Encyclopedia of California Wine, - 81 (PB)",1981,"1st ed","Wine Appreciation Guild"
"Keller, Gayle - Editor"
"Vintagewise (Calif. wines) (PB) (2 copies)",1980,"1st ed.","Vintage Image Books"
"Knox, Gerald M., Editor"
"Favorite American Wines",1979,"1st ed/1st prtng","Meriedith Corp."
"Kornfield, Anita Clay"
"Vintage",1980,"1st","Simon & Schuster"
"Kramer, Matt"
"Making Sense of California Wine",1992,"1st ed.","Wm Morrow & Co."
"Lamb, Richard B / Mittleberger, Ernest G."
"In Celebration of Wine and Life (lots of art work)",1980,"1st ed. rev.","Wine Appreciation Guild"
"Latimer, Patricia"
"Sonoma Mendicino Wine Book (PB)",1979,"1st ed.","Vintage Image"
"Laube, James"
"California's Great Cabernets - 90",1990,"1st ed/2nd prtng","Wine Spectator Press"
"California's Great Chardonnays - 90",1990,"1st ed","Wine Spectator Press"
"California Wine",1995,"1st ed.","Wine Spectator Press."
"California Wine",1999,"2st ed. Rev . updtd","Wine Spectator Press."
"Laughridge, Jamie"
"Rising Star Domaine Chandon -- A decade of Sparkle",1983,"1st ed.","Hopkinson & Blake"
"Lausanne, Edita,”
"Great Book of Wine, The",1970,"2nd ed","Galahad Books"
”Great Book of Wine, The",1970,"2nd ed. rev. updtd Amer.sec.","Galahad Books"
"Le Blanc, Helene"
"From Grape to Glass (PB)",1985,"1st ed.","Le Blanc, Self Pub."
"Lee, Hildi Gabriel"
"Vintners Choice (PB)",1986,"1st ed.","Ten Speed Press"
"Lee, Susan"
"Inexpensive Wine ",1974,"1st ed.","Quadrangle/NYT"
"Inexpensive Wine (PB)",1975,"9/75 1st prtng","Quadrangle/NYT"
"Leedom, William S."
"Vintage Wine Book. The (PB)",1963,"1st ed","Vintage Books, Knopf/Random House, Inc."
"Vintage Wine Book. The (PB)",1975,"1st ed" Rev.,"Vintage Books, Knopf/Random House, Inc."
"Lester, Mary"
"Hand Me That Corkscew, Bacchus",1973,"1st ed 1st prntn","The Piper Company"
"Lichine, Alexis"
"Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits, New - 79",1979,"11/79 2nd ed, 5th prt c67, 74","Alfred A. Knopf"
"Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits, New - 81 (2 copies)",1981,"3/81 3rd ed rev 67,74,81","Alfred A. Knopf"
"Guide to the Wines and vineyards of France (PB)",1986,"3rd ed rev and exp, 1st prntg","Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
(in collab. with E. Massee)","Wines of France",1951,"12/51 1st ed, 2nd prtng","Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
"Lorenzo, Jake"
"Cold Suviellance -- Jake Lorenzo Wine Columns",1993,"1st ed.","Wine Patrol Press"
"Lucia, Salvatore P., M.D."
"Wine and Your Well-being",1971,"1st ed.","Popular Library"
"Lukacs, Paul"
"American Vinatge - The Rise of American Wine",2000,"1st ed.","Boughton Mifflin Books"
"Mac Rae, David - Translator of Italian book"
"Great Wines of the World",1982,"1st English ed.","Cresent Books"
"Marks, Robert, Editor"
"Wines - How, When, and What to serve",1934,"1st ed","Schenley Import Corp. Isaac Goldmann Co."
"Marrison, L.W."
"Wines & Spirits (PB)",1958,"2nd prntng, rev. c 1957","Pelican Books"
"Martin, Don & Betty"
"Best of Wine Country, The - 91 (PB)",1991,"1st ed","Pine Cone Press"
"Best of the Wine Country, The (PB)",1997,"1st","Pine Cone Press"
"Massee, W.E."
"Wines & Sprits",1961,"1st ed.","Bramhall House"
"Wines of America, McCalls Guide to",1970,"1st ed","McCall Publishing Co."
"Wine Almanac, Massee's (PB) (2 copies)",1980,,
"Matson, Robert W. - Editor"
"North of San Francisco (PB)",1975,"9/75, 1st printing","North of SF"
"North of San Francisco (PB)",1977,"6/77, revised","North of SF"
"North of San Francisco (PB)",1978,"9/78 updtd & revised, c1975","Celestial Arts"
"May, Danny & Sharpe, Andy"
"Everything Wine Book, The (PB)",1997,"1st ed","Adams Media Co."
"McCormack"
"World of Wine",1986,"1st ed.","Discovery Books"
"McNultry, Henry"
"Drinking in Vogue",1978,"7th printing cc 1972","Adre Deutsch"
"McWhirter, Kathryn & Metcalfe, Charles"
"Encyclopedia of Spanish and Portuguese Wines (PB)",1991,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Melville, John"
"California Wines, Guide to (PB)",1960,"(cc 1955)","Nourse"
"California Wines, Guide to",1972,,"Nourse"
"Melville, John (revised by Jefferson Morgan)"
"California Wines, Guide to - 68 (PB)",1968,"c1955, 1960","Nourse Publishing Co"
"Meyer, Justin"
"Plain Talk about Fine Wine (PB)",1989,"1st ed.","Capra Press"
"Miller, Steven"
"Official Wine Guide 2000 (PB)",2000,"1st ed.","Food & Wine Books"
"Mondavi, Robert"
"Harvests of Joy (Mondavi's Bio) ",1998,"1st ed","Harcourt Brace & Co."
"Harvests of Joy (Mondavi's Bio) (PB)",1999,"1st ed","Harcourt Brace & Co."
"Moore, Bernard","Wines of North America - 83",1983,"1st ed","Winchmore"
"Moss, Austin Peter"
"Wines & Vines of Sonoma Cnty, Cole's Insider Guide to - 90 (PB)",1990,"1st ed","Cole Publishing Co."
"Wines & Vines of Napa County, Cole's Insider Guide to - 91 (PB)",1991,"1st ed","Cole Publishing Co."
"Muir, Ausgustus, Editor"
"How to Chose & Enjoy Wine - 72",1972,"1st ed.","Bonanza Books"
"Muscatine, Amerine & Thompson, Editors"
"Book of California Wine",1984,"1st ed.","Univ. Calif. Press/Sotheby Public."
"Nanovic, John"
"Wine, Vineyards & Labels, The Complete Book of",1979,"1st ed.","Ottenheimer"
"Norman, Winston"
"More Fun With Wine (PB)",1973,"1st ed PB","Pocket Books"
"Nury, F.S. & Fugelsang, K.C."
"Winemaker's Guide, The (pb)",1978,"1st ed.","Valley Publishers"
Olken, Ch. E./Singer, Earl G./Roby, Norman S."
"Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines - 80 (PB) (2 cpoies)",1980,"11/80, 1st ed","Alfred A. Knopf"
"Connoisseur's Handbook ofCalifornia Wines 82 (PB)",1982,"2nd ed. exp & rvsd","Alfred A. Knopf"
"California Wines, The Connoisseurs' Handbook of - 84 (PB)",1984,"8/84, 3rd ed (rev & expnd)","Alfred A. Knopf"
"Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines- 83(PB)",1983,"1/83, 2nd ed./2nd prtng","Alfred A. Knopf"
"Olken, Charles E./Roby, Norman S.."
"New Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines,- 95 ",1995,"11/95, 3rd ed.","Alfred A. Knopf"
"New Connoisseur's Handbook of Calif. Wines, The (PB)",1991,"1st ed. 1st prntg 12/12/91","Alfred Knopf"
"New Connoisseur's Handbook of Calif. Wines, The (PB)",1992,"1st ed. 2nd ptng 2/92","Alfred Knopf"
"Connoisseur's Handbook of the Wines of CA & Pac Norwest (PB) 2c",1998,"4th ed.","Alfred Knopf"
"Parker Jr., Robert M."
"Wine Buyer's Guide (PB) 87",1987,"1st prtng","Fireside-Simon & Schuster"
"Bordeaux - A Cohmpre. Guide 1961-1997",1998,"3rd ed. rev. updtd","Simon & Schuster"
"Paterson, John"
"International Book of Wines, The",1975,"1st Ed","Hamlyn"
"Penning-Roswell, Edmund"
"Wines of Bordeaux, The",1972,"3rd ed. rev.","Stein and Day"
"Peppercorn, David"
"Pocket Guide to Wines of Bordeaux, (PB)",1986,"1st ed c1986","Simon & Schuster"
"Peppercorn, David/Cooper, Brian/Blacker, Elwyn"
"Drinking Wine",1979,"1st ed","A Harbor House Book"
"Pinnegar, Franci"
"Wine making at Home (PB)",1985,"6th ed. cc 1971","Arrow Books"
"Pratt, James Norwood"
"Wine Bibber's Bible, The",1975,"Rev. Ed. c71","101 Productions"
"Rainbaird, George"
"Wine Handbook, The",1964,"1st ed c1963","Hawthorn Books, Inc."
"Wine Handbook, The (2 copies)",1969,"2nd","Galahad Books"
"Robards, Terry"
"Book of Wine, The New York Times",1976,"1st ed.","Quadrangle/New York Times"
"Book of Wine, The New York Times (PB)",1977,"1st ed. 9/77","Quadrangle/New York Times"
"California Wine Label Album ",1986,"2nd ed. (cc1981)","Workman Publishing"
"Roberge, Earl - signed by Brs.Timothy/James"
"Napa Wine Country (Christain Bros. Overleaf)- Photo journal",1985,"2nd. prnt, rev./expnd, 1st 75","Graphic Arts Center"
"Robertson, George"
"Port - 82 (PB)",1982,"Rev. c1978, 1982","Faber and Faber"
"Port - 92 (PB)",1992,"4th ed, rev. c1978","Faber and Faber"
"Robinson, Jancis"
"Vintage Timecharts",1989,"1st American Ed.","Weidenfield & Nicholson"
"Robotti, Peter J. & Francis D."
"Key to Gracious Living: Wine & Spirits",1972,"2nd prtng Nov. 72","Prentice-Hall"
"Sarles, John D."
"Wins and Grapes of California (PB)",1988,"1st ed.","Wine Books"
"Schneider, Steven J."
"International Album of Wine, The",1977,"1st. ed.","Holt Rhinhart Winston"
"Schoonmaker, Frank"
"Wines of Germany, The (PB)",1956,"1st ed","Hastings House"
"Schoonmaker, Frank","Encyclopedia of Wine",1965,"1st ed. Rev Ed c1964","Hastings House"
"Schoonmaker, Frank & Marvel, Tom"
"American Wines",1941,"2nd prtng","Duell, Sloan & Pearce"
"Searle, Ronald"
"Illustrated Wine Speak, The",1983,"1st ed.","Souvenir Press"
"Something in the Cellar (cartoons about wine industry)",1996,"Reissued 1995, reprtd 1996 c1972-1996","Souvenir Press"
"Seldon, Philip"
"Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine, The (PB)",1996,"1st ed. PB","Alpha Book"
"Sichel, Peter M.F. & Allen, Judy Ley"
"Which Wine ? Provides prices",1975,"1st ed","Harper & Row"
"Which Wine? (PB) Provides prices",1977,"c1975","A & W Visual Library"
"Silverman, Harold I., editor"
"Pride of the Wineries (PB)",1980,"1st ed.","A Calif. Living Book"
"Simon, Andre"
"Wines of the World",1981,"2nd ed., rev, c 67","McGraw Hill"
"Noble Grapes and Great Wines of France, The",1957,"1st ed","McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc."
"Champagne",1962,"1st ed","McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc."
"Commonsense of Wine, The",1971,"Reprinted, 1st printing 1966","Bonanza Books"
"Encyclopedia of Wines, ",1972,"1st American ed.","Quadrangle Books"
"Noble Grapes and Great Wines of France, The",1972,"Reprint c1957","Octopus/McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc."
"Encyclopedia of Wines",1973,"1st amer ed,","Quadrangle"
"Slow Food Editore"
"Wines of the World, Slow Food Guide to",1993,"1st ed.","Slow Food Editore"
"Smith, Rod - Rsrch &Text (Prev accomplished by Thompson,Bob)"
"Wine Country California - Sunset - 87 (PB)",1987,"1st prntng 8/87 c68,79,82,87 ","Lane Publishing Co."
"Sokolin, William"
"Liquid Assets",1987,"1st ed.","McMillian"
"Spurrier, Steven & Dovaz, Michael"
"Complete Wine Course",1983,"1st ed","G.P. Putnam's Sons"
"Sterling, Joy"
"Cultivated Life, A",1993,"1st. ed.","Villard Books"
“Vintage Feasting (a dairy of yr in life of wine lover) (PB)",1996,"11/96 1st prtng","Pocket Books"
"Stevenson, Robert L."
"From Scotland to Silverado (includes Silverado Squatters)",1966,"1st ed. reprint of RLS stories","John Harvard Lib./Belknap Press"
"Stockley, Tom"
"Winery Tours - Oregon, Wash., Idaho, BC",1977,"1st ed.","The Writing Works"
"Storm, John"
"Invitation to Wines, An (PB)",1955,"1st ed.","Sinon & Schuster"
"Street, Julian"
"Wines",1948,"2nd ed., rev.","Alfred A. Knopf"
"Stuller, Jay & Martin, Glen"
"Through the Grapevine",1989,"1st ed.","Wynwood"
"Tanzer, Stephen"
"Official Wine Guide 1999 (PB)",1999,"1st ed.","Food & Wine Books"
"Thompson, Bob"
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel #1",1968,"8/68, 1st ed./1st prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel #2",1968,"11/68, 1st ed./2nd prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel (PB) #3",1969,"8/69, 1st ed./3rd prtng ","Lane Books"
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel (PB) #4",1970,"9/70, 1st ed./4th prtng (rev)","Lane Books"
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel (PB) #6",1972,"11/72, 1st ed./6th prng","Lane Books"
"California Wine - Sunset Pictorial - "11/73, 1st prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel (PB) #7 ,1973,"3/73, 1st. ed./7th prtng (rev)","Lane Books"
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel- (PB) #9",1974,"5/74,1st. ed./9th prtng (rev)","Lane Books"
"California Wine Book, The","1st ed c1976","Wlm Morrow & Co."
“California Wine - Sunset Pictorial (PB)",1977,"3/77, 2nd prtng (updtd)","Lane Publishing Co."
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel (PB) #11",1977,"2/77, 1st. ed./11th prt (updtd)","Lane Books"
"California Wine Country - Sunset Travel (PB) #12 (2cpy)",1978,"5/78, 1st ed/12th prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California's Wine Country, Guide to - Sunset (PB)",1979,"8/79, 2nd ed./1st prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California's Wine Country, Guide to - Sunset (PB)",1980,"5/80, 2nd ed./2nd prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California's Wine Country, Guide to - Sunset (PB) (2 copies)",1982,"9/82, 3rd ed./1st prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"Pocket Encyclopedia of California Wines, Pocket (PB)",1980,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"California's Wine Country, Guide to - Sunset (PB)",1982,"9/82, Rev, 1st prtng","Lane Publishing Co."
"California's Wine Country, Guide to - Sunset (PB)",1983,"2nd printing, 6/8","Lane Pub. Co."
"California, Oregon and Washington, Webster's Wine Tours (PB)",1987,"1st printing","Prentis Hall/Simon & Schuster"
"Thompson, Robert & Sarvis, Shirley"
"American Wines and Wine Cooking",1973,"1st prtng","Better Homes & Garden"
"Topolos, Michael & Dopson, Betty"
"Wine Tour: Napa Valley - 78 (PB)",1978,"Rev. Ed., c1975","Vintage Image Books"
"Treber, Grace"
"World Wine Almanac and Wine Atlas (complete wine course)",1976,"1st","International Wine Society"
"Trimnell, Robert L."
"Wine and Mixing Drinks, The Complete Guide to (PB)",1981,"3rd prtng, c1980","Merit Publications"
"Wagner, Philip"
"Grapes into Wine (PB)",1986,"6th prt rvsd & updtd c74","Borzoi Books"
"Waldo, Myra"
"Pleasures of Wine, The",1963,"1st ed.","Crowell-Collier Press"
"Wallace, Forest & Cross, Gilbert"
"Game of Wine, The (PB)",1977,"1st ed.","Harper & Row"
"Wasserman, Sheldon & Pauline"
"White Wines of the World (2 Copy)",1978,"1st ed","Stein & Day"
"Waugh, Alec"
"Wines and Spirits - Time/Life - 68",1968,"1st ed","Time Life Books"
"Waugh, Harry"
"Winetaster's Choice",1973,"1st ed.","Quadrangle/NY TimesBooks"
"Harry Waugh's Wine Diary 1982-1986",1987,"1st Amer. prntng","Wine Appreciation Guild"
"Weaver, Robert J."
"Grape Growing",1969,"1st ed.","Jon Wiley & Sons"
"Weber, Lin"
"Old Napa Valley - The History to 1900 (PB)",1998,"1st ed.","Wine Ventures Publishing"
"Roots of the Present-Napa Valley 1900 to 1950 (PB)",2001,"1st ed.","Wine Ventures Publishing"
"Wile, Julius rev & expd"
"Encyclopedia of Wine - Schoonmaker, Frank",1980,"2nd ed, 2nd prtn c78 c64","Hastings House"
"Zraly, Kevin"
"Complete Wine Course, Windows of the World (PB)",1987,"2/87, rev. 1985","Bantum,Doubleday, Dell"
"Complete Wine Course, Windows on the World",1994,"updtd ver, c1992","Sterling Pub."
PAMPHLETS/BOOKLETS/ETC., PUBLISHED WITHOUT LISTED AUTHOR/EDITOR
"California, Northern - Sunset 68 (PB)",1968,"6th prntng, 9/68","Lane Magazine & Book Pub."
"California Wine Wonderland (PB)",1970,,"Wine Institute Pamphlet
"Guide to Good Wine, A",1970,"3rd prntng","Murrays Book Sales"
"Pleasures of Wine with Food, The (PB)",1975,"1st ed","Wine Advisory
"California "Winery Tours (PB)",1985,"1st","Automobile Club of SOCAL"
"Opus One- 3 booklets on Rothchild-Mondavi creation",1999,"1st","Opus One"
"Robert Mondavi Winery 2001 (print 3716 of 5000)",2001,"1st ","Robert Mondavi winery"
"Unk auth/editor","Good Wines of Bordeaux, 1983,"english ver., cc 1980","unk"
"Wine Country Map & Tour Guide (PB)","1980c","unk.","The Redwood Rancher"
"Wine Institute"California Wine Wonderland (PB)",1970,,"Wine Institute Pamphlet"
"Wine Institute","Story of Wine and Its Uses, the (PB)",1965,"6/65, 3rd ed","Wine Institute"
"Wine Institute","Story of Wine and Its Uses, the (PB)",1979,"10th ed 5/1979","Wine Institute"
"The Wine Spectrum""Selling & Serving Wine (PB)",1982,"1st","The Wine Spectrum"
HISTORY/NATIONAL EVENTS & PERSONALITIES
of the U.S. Dept. of Ag.",1920,"1st print","U.S. Printing Office"
Cillier, Peter & Horowitz, David"
"Rockefellers, The An American Dynasty",1976,"1st ed.","Holt Rinehart Wilson"
"Harlow, Ralph Volney"
"Growth of the United States VII 1865-1950 {expansin period}",1953,"2nd ed. rev cc 1943","Henry Holt Co."
"James, Marquis & Bessie R."
"Biography of a Bank (Bank of Italy/America)",1954,"1st ed","Harper & Rowe"
Jones, Evan & Morgan, Dale L."
"Trappers and Mountain Men",1961,"1st ed.","American Heritage/Golden Press"
"Lundberg, Ferdinand"
"Rich & The Super Rich, The",1968,"1st ed.","Lyle Staurt, Inc."
"Marrus, Michel R."
"Mr. Sam - The Life & Times of Samuel Bronfman",1991,"1st ed.","Viking"
"Miller, Russell"
"House of Getty, The",1985,"1st prntng","Henry Holt"
"Richard Henry Dana"
"Two Years Before the Mast (reprint)",1985,"Reprint of 1840 book)","New American Library"
California
"Bean, Walter "
"California -- An Interpretive History ",1978,"3rd ed. c1968","McGraw-Hill"
"Bean, Walter & Rawls, James"
"California -- An Interpretive History (PB)",1988,"5th ed. c1968","McGraw-Hill"
"Bauer, Helen"
"California Mission Days",1951,"1st ed.","Doubleday"
"Birmingham, Stephen"
"California Rich",1980,"1st ed","Simon & Schuster"
"Caughey, John Walton"
"California",1947,"1st ed, 4th prntn cc 1940","Prentice-Hall"
"California",1957,"2nd ed, 4th prntn","Prentice-Hall"
“Caughey, John & Laree"
"Calif. Heritage - An anthology of Hist. & Lit. (PB)",1973,"2nd ed. rev, 2nd prntn","F.E Peacock"
"Coleman"
"PG & E of California (1850-1952)",1952,"1st ed.","McGraw-Hill"
“Crump, Donald, Editor"
"Trails West - National Geographic",1983,"1st ed., 2nd prt","National Geographic"
“Daniels, Rger & Olin, Jr., Spencer C,"
"Racism in California-A reader in the history of oppression (PB)",1979," cc 72","Macmillian"
"Eby, Gordon"
"Enjoy Olde Napa (PB)",1979,"1st ed.","Eby Press"
"Fay, James, Senior Editor"
"California Almanac -- Bank of America (PB) (91)",1991,"5th ed. c1991","Pacific Data Resources"
"Hutchinson, W. "
"California two centuries of man, land & growth in Golden State(PB)",1969,"2nd prntn c1967","Canfield Press/Harper & Row Pub."
"McWiiliams, Carey"
"California: The Great Exception (PB)",1979,"2nd prntn, 1st ed 76","Peregrin Smith"
"Jakes, John
"California Gold -- A Historical Novel",1989,"1st ed.","Random House”
“Pitt, Leonard"
"California Conrroversies Major issues in History of the state (PB)",1968,"1st ed","Scott, Foresman & Co."
Rolle, Andrew F. & Gaines, John
"Golden State, The - A history of Calif. ",1970,"1st ed, 6th prntn 11/70","Thomas Y. Crowell Co."
"Salitore, Editor-in-chief"
"California - Past Present Future (PB)",1969,"12th ed","SF Examiner"
Staniford, Edward"
"Pattern of California History, The",1975,"1st ed","Canfield Press"
"Starr, Kevin"
"Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915", 1973,"1st ed.","Oxford"
"Stone, Adolf, Editor"
"California Almanac -- Hearld-Examiner (PB) (64)",1964,"7th ed c1947","Salitore & Stone"
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