The production of wine over the centuries has allowed us to view our own history, bottle by bottle, as the years have passed. Wine, for humanity, has been the most delectable and forthcoming fruit of our labors, not simply in the production itself but in providing a respite from our toil since the earliest of times. Each vintage tells a global story of good years and bad. If Prohibition had never occurred, the story of wine in America would have been vastly different. If World War II had never occurred, the wine regions in Europe would have been sizably changed. More recently, if California’s 2014 earthquake had never been, that year’s vintage across the state would have told a different story. The three wineries explored over the next pages are all rooted in a distinct history, one recent in the tale of winemaking dating from1988, to one that can trace its wine lineage back to at least the 1300s. Joseph Phelps, Patz & Hall, and Antinori all carry the passion of their genesis in the folds of their winemaking process.
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