In today’s San Diego Union-Tribune, Michele Parente samples four wine-related tales and travelogues. He saves the juiciest, The House of Mondavi, for last. “In her sweeping saga of four generations of Mondavis — which starts in small-town Italy in 1883 and ends in a corporate coup in Napa in 2004 — Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Flynn Siler chronicles back-stabbing jealousy, sibling rivalry, parental betrayal, ruinous adulterous affairs, legal bloodletting and corporate boardroom treachery that make J.R. Ewing and his clan look like the Cleavers.” Read more.
Parente also checks out To Cork Or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle by George M. Taber (Scribner) and two different books with the same title — California Wine Country, by Peter Fish and Sara Schneider (Sunset Books) and California Wine Country by John Doerper, Constance Jones and Sharron Wood (Fodors).
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