The University of California / Sotheby Book of California Wine.

MUSCATINE, Doris; Maynard A. Amerine; Bob Thompson.

Item Number: 130681

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press / Sotheby Publications, 1984.

First edition of The University of California and Sotheby’s joint publication on the wines of California. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with diagrams, figures, tables, maps, and incidentals. Signed on the half-title page by contributors Doris Muscatine, Bob Thompson, William J. Dickerson, Darrell Corti, Brother Timothy, James Lapsley, Armand Kasimatis, Eleanor McCrea, and Forrest R. Tancer. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

A lovely reminiscence by M. F. K. Fisher on the honest wines she has enjoyed over seven decades opens this book. It is followed by an astute essay by the noted wine critic Hugh Johnson showing how the new style of California winemaking has changed the world's way of thinking about California wine - and California's way of thinking about itself. In other original essays eight winemakers, several historians and wine critics, a gifted cook, a doctor, a plant geneticist, corkscrew and label collectors, and a score of other experts discuss the many dimensions of California wine, give guidance on tasting, and evaluate the wine and wineries.