Winegrowing in Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains 1798 - 1981 
 
Charles Sullivan. Foreword by Leon D. Adams. 
 
California History Center: 1982. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Slight edge wear along the top and bottom of the jacket. Tiny stain on the back panel of the jacket. Slight edge wear along the top and bottom of the boards as well. Boards ever so slightly bowed. 196 pages with a fold out map in the back. Very good. 
 
What kind of a wine bar bookshop keeping the secret histories of Santa Cruz alive would we be if we couldn't point you to the best in our wine's history? And this book is local history at its best: it debunks myths about everyone from pioneers to contemporary wine fanatics but in doing so it gives you even better, more vivid stories. Understand on a microcosmic level the wine revolution that swept America by starting in California. An essential book for the library with a portion dedicated to wine, and it will always be easily and fondly spotted because of its pretty wrap around jacket with grapes on its spine. 
 
"Much which has passed as California wine history has been written with an eye on its commercial effect. When a proper history of California wine is written it will derive from smaller studies of the state's wine growing regions, studies based on contemporaneous, primary sources. My purpose in writing this work has been to provide just such a study for two of the state's important wine districts, the Santa Clara Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains."