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Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards

Description: Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California - Francis Dinkelspiel - St Martin's Press 2015 Illustrated, 302 pages Fine Hardcover and Dust jacket. On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks. With a propane torch and a bucket of gasoline-soaked rags, Anderson annihilated entire California vineyard libraries as well as bottles of some of the most sought-after wines in the world. Among the priceless bottles destroyed were 175 bottles of Port and Angelica from one of the oldest vineyards in California made by Frances Dinkelspiel's great-great grandfather, Isaias Hellman, in 1875. Sadly, Mark Anderson was not the first to harm the industry. The history of the California wine trade, dating back to the 19th Century, is a story of vineyards with dark and bloody pasts, tales of rich men, strangling monopolies, the brutal enslavement of vineyard workers and murder. Five of the wine trade murders were associated with Isaias Hellman's vineyard in Rancho Cucamonga beginning with the killing of John Rains who owned the land at the time. He was shot several times, dragged from a wagon and left off the main road for the coyotes to feed on. In her new book, Frances Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed and violence lying in wait. Few people sipping a fine California Cabernet can even guess at the Tangled Vines where its life began.

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 60 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Personalize: No

Inscribed: No

Type: True Stories

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Vintage: No

Personalized: No

Book Series: Historical Accounts

Binding: Hardcover

Product Group: Book

Edition: First Edition

Weight: 1 lbs

IsTextBook: No

Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults

Signed: No

Book Title: Tangled Vines : Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication Year: 2015

Item Height: 1.3 in

Topic: Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine, Murder / General, General

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Cooking, True Crime

Item Weight: 18.8 Oz

Author: Frances Dinkelspiel

Item Length: 9.6 in

Item Width: 6.4 in

Format: Hardcover

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