[WINE] WINE - AN INTRODUCTION FOR AMERICANS

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth covered boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 357 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Signed on front free end paper by the author Maynard A. Amerine. This illustrated volume provides a history of the grape and its delightful products from the earliest times of Western civilization to the present. It explains the processes of fermentation and aging, and outlines the operations of wineries and brandy distilleries. Interior and boards pristine. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar.