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Laddar... Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California (2015)av Frances Dinkelspiel
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A curious book. The author has her roots in the California wine country, and part of this book traces some early history of wine-growing in Rancho Cucamonga (yes, that Cucamonga) near Los Angeles. The winery her family was involved with, through various curious mishaps, had bequested a number of bottles of wine to the family. Many of these bottles were destroyed in a totally senseless, enraging crime committed by a feckless embezzler who lied, cheated and stole from many vineyards and wine collectors, and who destroyed tens of millions of dollars worth of wine, as well as a number of businesses. You want to strangle the man convicted of the crime (he ended up, some years after the book, being released because of health reasons). ( ) Another fascinating book about wine, this one takes place in California. The main story is about the arson and the destruction of so much wine but she also gives a history of wine in California and her family's part in it. The main story about Mark Anderson and his role in wine fraud, theft and then the arson, proves once again that fact can be much stranger than fiction. Just an incredible story. Now for a glass of nice red wine! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Tracing the history of California's world of wine and how passion for the liquid some have called "the elixir of the gods" has driven people to extremes, a riveting narrative exposes the violent and obsessive world underneath the oh-so-laid-back label of the California wine trade.
"On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks. With a propane torch and a bucket of gasoline-soaked rags, Anderson annihilated entire California vineyard libraries as well as bottles of some of the most sought-after wines in the world. Among the priceless bottles destroyed were 175 bottles of Port and Angelica from one of the oldest vineyards in California made by Frances Dinkelspiel's great-great grandfather, Isaias Hellman, in 1875. Sadly, Mark Anderson was not the first to harm the industry. The history of the California wine trade, dating back to the 19th Century, is a story of vineyards with dark and bloody pasts, tales of rich men, strangling monopolies, the brutal enslavement of vineyard workers and murder. Five of the wine trade murders were associated with Isaias Hellman's vineyard in Rancho Cucamonga beginning with the killing of John Rains who owned the land at the time. He was shot several times, dragged from a wagon and left off the main road for the coyotes to feed on. In her new book, Frances Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed and violence lying in wait. Few people sipping a fine California Cabernet can even guess at the Tangled Vines where its life began"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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