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The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine (2010)

par Todd Kliman

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A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. At a time when the vineyards of France were being ravaged by phylloxera, this grape seemed to promise a bright future for a truly American brand of wine-making, earthy and wild. And then Norton all but vanished. What happened?      The narrative begins more than a hundred years before California wines were thought to have put America on the map as a wine-making nation and weaves together the lives of a fascinating cast of renegades. We encounter the suicidal Dr. Daniel Norton, tinkering in his experimental garden in 1820s Richmond, Virginia. Half on purpose and half by chance, he creates a hybrid grape that can withstand the harsh New World climate and produce good, drinkable wine, thus succeeding where so many others had failed so fantastically before, from the Jamestown colonists to Thomas Jefferson himself. Thanks to an influential Long Island, New York, seed catalog, the grape moves west, where it is picked up in Missouri by German immigrants who craft the historic 1873 bottling. Prohibition sees these vineyards burned to the ground by government order, but bootleggers keep the grape alive in hidden backwoods plots. Generations later, retired Air Force pilot Dennis Horton, who grew up playing in the abandoned wine caves of the very winery that produced the 1873 Norton, brings cuttings of the grape back home to Virginia. Here, dot-com-millionaire-turned-vintner Jenni McCloud, on an improbable journey of her own, becomes Norton's ultimate champion, deciding, against all odds, to stake her entire reputation on the outsider grape.      Brilliant and provocative, The Wild Vine shares with readers a great American secret, resuscitating the Norton grape and its elusive, inky drink and forever changing the way we look at wine, America, and long-cherished notions of identity and reinvention.… (plus d'informations)
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My first abandoned book in years. What should have been an incredibly interesting story about the history of the state grape of Virginia, the Norton grape, was dull and full of run-on sentences that waxed poetic without actually being such. When I found out that the author is a journalist for the Washington Post, the writing style makes much more sense; it's a good rhythm for a short news piece, but terrible in long prose. ( )
  Ahsoka3230 | Feb 15, 2022 |
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Another book I found in my travels through the donations at my library. Honestly, I thought it would end up being a DNF. Surprisingly [a: Kliman|3309037|Todd Kliman|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] hooked me.

The book tells the story of a single grape, The Norton, and it's history through the ages. I enjoyed the extensive research by the author, and it has sparked my interest enough to find a bottle of Norton's grape and see if it stands up to the author's praise. ( )
  JBroda | Sep 24, 2021 |
If you don't live in Missouri, you may not know how big the wine industry is here, especially in Hermann. I do live in Missouri, and I never miss the MO WineFest, Chocolate Wine Trail, or any invitation/opportunity to head down Highway 70 to Hermann. One wine that is big in MO is the Norton (in fact, there is an annual Norton Wine Trail event). I am not a HUGE Norton fan, although I do drink it occasionally, and my brother and my niece are rabid Norton fans.
So when I saw that a book had been published about the history of the Norton grape, and that the author would be at a wine-tasting/book-signing, I grabbed my niece and off we went.
The wine was good, Todd Kliman was interesting, but the book...how does one write a 260 page book about a grape?
Well, Kliman did it, and he did it well. He tells of Dr. Daniel Norton's creation of a hybrid grape that is hardy in the American climate (specifically Virginia) and still makes a good, drinkable wine. He tells of the Germans who settled in Hermann (a lovely town--you should visit) and their decision to grow grapes, including the Norton. He provides some interesting insight into repercussions of Prohibition that I never thought about, and about the resurgence of the American wine industry in the 1970's. Through it all, he has adventures with Jenni McCloud in Virginia, the Norton's fiercest champion.
All in all, a fascinating book about, yes, a grape. ( )
  tloeffler | Sep 11, 2010 |
Kliman posits that "Norton" is the only native American grape that produces wine comparable to the traditional European vinifera grapes. He then traces the grapes origin and and the historical attempts to make great wine from it. He begins with Thomas Jefferson's repeated failed attempts to get European varietals to grow in Virginia. Toward the end of Jefferson's life a medical doctor turned amatuer horticulturalist (Dr Norton) clones the native grape that becomes known as Norton. He has limited success in promoting the grape. Later, German colonists settle some 60 miles west of Saint Louis, forming the town of Hermann. Finding the land unsuitable for crops other than viticulture, the settlers begin growing grapes and producing wine. One farmer discovers the Norton grape and his wines take off. Although Prohibition devastated the wine industry nationwide, Hermann is still the center of Missouri wine country and many wineries are producing great red wines from the Norton grape. Kliman is an excellent writer, and he interweaves history with the personal lives of the people involved with the grape. I have been drinking wine for over 35 years, and have read extensively about it without ever hearing of this grape. The book makes me want to visit Missouri wine country on a tasting tour. ( )
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A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. At a time when the vineyards of France were being ravaged by phylloxera, this grape seemed to promise a bright future for a truly American brand of wine-making, earthy and wild. And then Norton all but vanished. What happened?      The narrative begins more than a hundred years before California wines were thought to have put America on the map as a wine-making nation and weaves together the lives of a fascinating cast of renegades. We encounter the suicidal Dr. Daniel Norton, tinkering in his experimental garden in 1820s Richmond, Virginia. Half on purpose and half by chance, he creates a hybrid grape that can withstand the harsh New World climate and produce good, drinkable wine, thus succeeding where so many others had failed so fantastically before, from the Jamestown colonists to Thomas Jefferson himself. Thanks to an influential Long Island, New York, seed catalog, the grape moves west, where it is picked up in Missouri by German immigrants who craft the historic 1873 bottling. Prohibition sees these vineyards burned to the ground by government order, but bootleggers keep the grape alive in hidden backwoods plots. Generations later, retired Air Force pilot Dennis Horton, who grew up playing in the abandoned wine caves of the very winery that produced the 1873 Norton, brings cuttings of the grape back home to Virginia. Here, dot-com-millionaire-turned-vintner Jenni McCloud, on an improbable journey of her own, becomes Norton's ultimate champion, deciding, against all odds, to stake her entire reputation on the outsider grape.      Brilliant and provocative, The Wild Vine shares with readers a great American secret, resuscitating the Norton grape and its elusive, inky drink and forever changing the way we look at wine, America, and long-cherished notions of identity and reinvention.

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