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Cucamonga Valley Wine: The Lost Empire of American Winemaking (American Palate)

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The Cucamonga Valley used to be once The united states’s largest wine-producing region, crafting quality vintages decades before Napa and Sonoma. Secondo Guasti, an ambitious and enterprising Italian immigrant, established the region’s first vineyard in 1901, and others soon followed. Wineries just like the Vai Brothers, Padre, Galleano, Brookside and more made the valley the epicenter of a burgeoning industry. Now not even Prohibition may halt production. Whilst domestic breweries and distilleries shuttered, Cucamonga’s brandy and sherry continued to be legally made for culinary and medicinal functions. Yet by the past due 1970s, harvests had dwindled and vineyards vanished. Urbanization, vine disease and property taxes effectively ended production. Lately, native vintners and wine enthusiasts are reviving the region’s proud heritage. Authors George M. Walker and John Peragine uncork a legacy too delectable to die.

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