wine industry

New York's Finger Lakes is home to the country's fastest-growing wine region, and each year millions of tourists spill into the tasting rooms of its wineries. Filled with fun and likable characters,Summer in a Glassbrings this burgeoning area to life and captures its exciting diversity--from its immigrant German winemakers to its young, technically trained connoisseurs, from classic Rieslings to up-and-coming Cabernet Francs.

Chronicles the rise of wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., describing how, over the last twenty-five years, he revolutionized the way in which wines around the world are made, sold, and talked about.

The author describes his experiences living temporarily in California's wine country, focusing on the battles that raged between rich Napa Valley and bohemian Sonoma Valley.

Globalization has pushed back the borders of the wine world, creating a complex, interconnected market where Old World and New World wines and producers compete head to head for control of the market forces that are redrawing the world wine map.