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This moving, evocative memoir, woven with lyrical descriptions of the sights and smells of vineyard life, tells the inspirational story of one woman's journey to success in an industry run mostly by men. At Home in the Vineyard, filled with colorful characters and unexpected experiences, brings a local rural community vividly alive as Oregon wine pioneer and industry icon Susan Sokol Blosser recounts how she fell in love with a vineyard, learned how to run it, and ultimately achieved her vision of producing Pinot Noirs to rival those of Burgundy. An intimate family story, At Home in the Vineyard also gives a candid insider's view of Oregon's flourishing wine industry.
Sokol Blosser begins her narrative in the 1970s, when, as a young, idealistic wife, she helped her husband make his wild idea of planting a vineyard in the Dundee Hills become a reality. By the book's final pages, she has become president of Sokol Blosser Winery, widely respected for gaining national visibility and for producing world-class wines, especially the elusive Pinot Noir. Along the way, Sokol Blosser tells how she learned to do everything from driving a tractor and managing a picking crew to selling Oregon wine in Manhattan. She also shares some special accomplishments: how she instituted values of environmental sustainability and social responsibility at the vineyard, integrated family and business life, and successfully brought the second generation on board.
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Sour grapes? No way!.......2007-07-02
Well, except when the weather deals them an unwelcome clout....
I live smack dab in the middle of wine country (California) myself, but am no vintner. And it happens I took a scouting trip to the McMinnville vicinity in Oregon last year, thinking it a prospective new home. So, when I spied the lush, green-vined cover of AT HOME IN THE VINEYARD, I was hooked and had to investigate one woman's (and her family's) experiences establishing and nurturing grapes from plant to bottle.
Susan Sokol Blosser writes a chatty, wide-ranging history beginning in late 1970, when she gave birth to her first son and her then-husband Bill "closed the deal on our first piece of vineyard land." She traces the stages of the vineyard and the winery that was built later with an easy, honest style that disarms and charms. It is soon apparent that this woman is an engine of energy. During the years her three children are small, she mainly toils in the vineyard, tilling, planting, picking, spraying, fertilizing, etc. But she also finds time to join the school board and various associations. She also teaches briefly at a McMinnville college. Later, she is twice a candidate for state public office, once losing by a questionable "whisker." As the family wine business expands, so does the wine industry in Oregon. Susan and Bill do their part to uphold and promote the burgeoning reputation Oregon wine slowly acquires -- particularly its Pinot Noir which grows full-bodied in the cooler Northwest climate. In 1990, Susan takes over from Bill as president of their winery and slowly refinances and then gains full ownership of the enterprise. She changes winemakers to improve quality. She travels widely and often to see distributors and explore new markets. She modernizes the labels on their bottles and gains national attention with a blended white wine. She deals with lawsuits and legislative hurdles. She also decides to shift to organic operations and embraces sustainable agriculture. Then, in the early years of the new millennium, she decides she will focus on gradually handing over the reins of power to the son and daughter who have decided to follow their parents into the family business.
While the author relates the chronology of the vineyard and winery she owns and manages, she doesn't ignore the personal side. AT HOME IN THE VINEYARD includes some cute anecdotes about farm pets, and it mentions family concerns such as her father's Alzheimer's without dwelling on them. At one point, I wondered how in the world anyone could juggle so many balls in the air -- family, business, many friendships, and political activism. Something seemed bound to tumble. Well, something did, and the author unflinchingly, and without wallowing, tackles the changes in her life after the children grew up and left the nest.
For anyone who has ever considered starting up a winery, AT HOME IN THE VINEYARD illustrates the kind of commitment and fortitude such an undertaking requires. But even if you aren't planning on being the entrepreneur that all the members of the Sokol Blosser family are; if you seek stories about rural life, want to know more about the Willamette Valley, or are interested in one outspoken and undaunted woman's adventures as a corporate executive, then snag a copy of AT HOME IN THE VINEYARD and -- maybe with a glass of wine in hand -- imbibe it cover to cover.
Cheers!.......2007-04-26
Pour a glass of Evolution Wine and kick back with this entertaining memoir. If the technical aspects of starting and maintaining a business is not a favorite reading topic there is still plenty of life drama going on that is highly readable and easy to relate to. Having lived in Oregon for 22 years and seen (and tasted) the state's wine industry mature I was fascinated with finding out the inside story. If you live in Oregon you might enjoy a few "I was there" moments when the author describes the wonderful concert series in her vineyard. Ah yes...Johnny Mathis under the full moon. Wonderful memory, wonderful book.
Speaks to the heart . . . .......2007-04-01
I found Hargrave's autobiography pompous and dull, but Susan Sokol Blosser's account of building a life in the Dundee Hills of Oregon speaks to me on many levels--as a woman working in the wine industry, a woman working with her husband, a woman running her own business, and a mother. Susan turns her trials into triumphs and exercises a sense of humor along the way. From the Great Goose Experiment to the day her tearful son rides his bike all the way to school by himself, this is a story that will transport you into "The Life" of owning a vineyard and winery, with a judicial salting of reality and romance.
This bears a lot of similarity to The Vineyard.......2007-03-21
This book, down to the "pioneer" theme,and dustjacket synopsis, seems to owe a significant debt to Louisa Thomas Hargrave's The Vineyard, which covered similar territory at a similar time on Long Island's North Fork.
Minor Classic.......2006-10-02
This is a brilliant book written by a highly intelligent and unusual woman. It is probably headed towards becoming a minor classic. Like all great books it is not easy to classify. At its most superficial it purports to be a history of the Oregon wine industry, a subject of limited interest. At another level it is a business autobiography by a woman who heads a successful Oregon winery, a subject of slightly wider appeal. Yet both levels simply form a frame to answer more eternal questions: who am I and how did I get to be who I am? At that deeper level the book may come to have a more lasting life.
Emerging into adulthood in the early 1970's the author and her husband bought land in Oregon and planted grape vines which ultimately led to the Sokol-Blosser Winery. That they were in their early twenties with no business experience, no knowledge of the wine industry, and no knowledge of agricultural did not then occur to them as an insurmountable obstacle. Nearly forty years later after taking over the business from her husband, surviving the disinvestment of her brothers, droughts, rain storms, a volcanic eruption, separation from business partners, 20% interest rates, three children, a three-legged cat, recalcitrant geese, a mid-life divorce, love unexpectedly found anew, success in business and failure in politics, the author recounts with great honesty the trials and tribulations of a woman's life in the second half of the 20th century as mother, wife, and CEO.
While the author ascribes the emerging success of her business mainly to determination and some luck, her intelligence and judgment shine through and provide a more convincing explanation. That no rancor invades the author's tale, despite many instances where bitterness and acrimony would be a natural response, suggests that her skill and judgment in negotiating difficult situations may have counted more heavily than simple determination. The author's seriousness is often leavened with humor. It is a book well worth reading.
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- Tardi's Breakout Story
- A great book about life, love and wine!
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- Part travelogue, part Italian cookbook, part romance, and part cleansing the soul
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Romancing the Vine: Life, Love, and Transformation in the Vineyards of Barolo
Alan Tardi
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Alan Tardi, former owner of Follonico in New York, describes his life in the Piedmonte district of Italy focusing on the cultivation and harvest of the region's celebrated Barolo wine, and including rare local recipes
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Tardi's Breakout Story.......2007-07-03
As a fellow Italio-American New Yorker, Mr. Tardi's quest for an NYC exit hits home. As much as we "New Yorkah's" love NY, we hope that a better lifestyle is out there and that we are able to break free to experience it. Also like Mr. Tardi, I found a similar venue for my ultimate "escape from NY"-Torino (only 45 minutes from Barolo). The combination of the author's thirst for a richer life and a delicate romance (I too am married to a beautiful Italian "testa dura") woven into age-old Piedmonte recipe's and nurtured along with tantalizing tales of the "King of Wines" results in wonderful read, that inspires the reader to eat, drink and live La Dolce Vita! Bravo Mr. Tardi! (maybe I'll run into you on July 5th when I take a day trip to your new home!)
A great book about life, love and wine!.......2007-03-12
Just a great read. I fell in love with Piemonte while reading this book. I envy the author! Oh and some great recipes to try also.
Come Taste and See.......2007-02-05
Alan Tardi has a true gift for description as evidenced in the wonderful book, Romancing the Vine. I felt as if I had been transported to Italia and dropped into the Barolo region every time I picked up the book! The people became real through his picturesque representations, and you could feel the temperatures as he worked in the vineyards, and taste the food as he sat down with the various individuals with whom he came into contact! I thoroughly enjoyed Romancing the Vine, and hope that it is only the first of many books from Signor Tardi!
Part travelogue, part Italian cookbook, part romance, and part cleansing the soul.......2006-12-11
Not long after the horrifying 9/11, restaurateur Alan Tardi closed his popular Follonico to leave the Big Apple for some soul searching. He went Italy's renowned wine region the Piedmont where he settled in the village of Castiglione Falletto. Mr. Tardi explains that 9/11 was a wake up call to what matters in life, love of others and to be loved. Thus he followed his heart to be with his Ivana at her family vineyards working the field along with her brother to bring it back to life. Though he returns to Manhattan periodically he has adjusted to his new outdoors lifestyle.
Part travelogue, part Italian cookbook, part romance, and part cleansing the soul, Mr. Tardi provides a deep look at the Piedmont wine region while at the same time enabling readers a chance to understand why he needed to reknew his life. The recipes are mouthwatering and the description of the are are top rate, but the biography is at its best when the author opens his soul to his audience; the cooking and vineyards are healers at least for him while his love of people is what the terrorists cannot destroy.
Harriet Klausner
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In this sequel to the popular The Luberon Garden, the author makes a very personal journey, with a hangover and an uncertain heart, through the country’s finest vineyards, chateaux and villages in search of the France he fell in love with so many years ago.
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A generation ago, the Ryman family arrived in the Dordogne to follow a dream: to live in France in an elegant chateau and make wine in a vineyard of their own. It didn't take them long to discover and fall in love with Chateau de la Jaubertie, a beautiful 400-year-old country mansion set in the heart of the lush green valley of the Dordogne. Together, the family embarked on a search for a new life a la francaise. But they had not anticipated the steep learning curve required to deal with the local French people and their customs; nor the passions and rifts that were to erupt within the family. In taking a vineyard producing barely drinkable wine, they created the finest wines in Bergerac. However, the search for their dream almost tore them apart, and the family would never be quite the same again.
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Epic, fascinating, and passionate........2003-06-03
Jeremy Josephs writes this book so convincingly that I just wanted to read this book over and over again.
The style of writing he provides us with is truly gripping. I reccomend this book to everyone with a taste for great litterature.
Epic, fascinating, and passionate........2003-06-03
Jeremy Josephs writes this book so convincingly that I just wanted to read this book over and over again.
The style of writing he provides us with is truly gripping. I reccomend this book to everyone with a taste for great litterature.
How to be obnoxious without really trying.......2003-01-10
I could not stand these people! They were so self-centered and obnoxious. I don't know if it was the author's style of writing but this book seemed more about the family's dysfunctional way of interacting with each other and some employees. But actually I think they really are that way. Skip this one and buy Carol Drinkwater's "The Olive Farm" or Susan Loomis's books instead.
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In 1973, against the advice of experts and the experience of history, Louisa Hargrave and her husband, Alex, bought a run-down 1680-vintage potato farm on Long Island's North Fork and planted ten thousand European wine grapes. Having begun her grape- growing adventure with the arrogance of youth and the assumption that she and her husband could figure it all out themselves, she was both humbled and transformed by the land, by her children, and by the generosity of those who helped along the way. At once wry and heartwarming, this is an odyssey as much about spirit and the connection to place as it is about the simple pleasures of a new wine.
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- Excellent book by a thoughtful, sincere individual
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Making It Home
Lars Nordstrom
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Excellent book by a thoughtful, sincere individual.......1998-09-18
As a home winemaker, I've had the pleasure in the past to make wine from grapes grown by the author. Prior to reading the book, Lars had impressed me as an inquisitive, well-read and knowledgeable individual who cared very much about people and all living things in nature. His open & honest narration was truly a pleasure to read. In some respects, it's almost like a diary.
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Martha's Vineyard at Its Best
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Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film, and Television
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Angela Carter is best known for her novels, short fiction and journalism, but she also produced a substantial body of writing for media other than the printed page, including five radio plays, two film adaptations, an original television documentary and a number of unrealized scripts for stage and screen. Despite increasing academic interest in Carter's work, these dramatic writings have largely been ignored. In this book, Charlotte Crofts redresses this lack of critical attention by examining Carter's dramatic writings together for the first time (including two unpublished works), giving them a more central position in the Carter canon.
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Incorrect Thoughts: Notes on Our Wayward Culture
John Leo
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It left me almost speechless........2006-02-17
If the information present in this book is all true and accurately framed, I'm horrified. I am not implying that I am challenging the validity of the information. In fact, I have seen hints of some of this in other sources. Some of this left me almost speechless (I don't think I'm ever completely speechless). I don't doubt, that if this book were read by every person in this country, there would be massive changes demanded in many areas. I hope this book galvanizes enough people to begin the process of those changes. SUMMARY: Horrifying - and a must read for every citizen.
Common sense take on culture.......2003-11-21
John Leo fans will love it, of course. It is quintessential Leo. But for the uninitiated, John Leo presents a 7 course meal of the decline of culture through the use of the elite's conceptaual reconstitution of "fairness". He takes aims and devastates their pet ideal of Political Correctness, and spares no institution from his microscope. He's astute, on point and very, very funny. He's the precursor to Rich Lowry, et al, and a lot better at the game.
Unapologetic Conservative Common Sense.......2002-09-06
A prior reviewer (see below) questioned the value of calling John Leo a 'conservative' thinker, but, let's face it, it's an appropriate label. The subject areas he tackles reads like Neal Boortz's program notes: abortion, feminism, victimology, postmodernism, welfare, Bill Clinton, Rigoberta Menchu, and some former low-level government temporary employee named Monica. Even George Lucas and Kate Moss get ladled a helping of Leo's unparalleled common sense. And the authors he quotes without referencing their political tilt (Heather MacDonald, David Horowitz, William Raspberry...) becomes almost a running joke.
Grouped into seven parts ('Media', 'Education', 'Family and Gender', 'Race and Minorities', 'Politics and Law', 'Culture and Language', and 'Society and Social Behavior'), the body of the book consists of reprints of Leo's columns from U.S. News & World Report, each only about a page long. Unfortunately, this makes the reading feel like riding with someone who's learning to drive stick, just as he gets rolling, he stops and starts again.
The two biggest downsides to the book are not Leo's fault: first, the articles aren't dated, which would have helped put some of his comments (like those on O.J. and Amy Fisher) a little more into perspective, and second, inexplicably, there's no index, which would have saved you much frustration the many times in the future you will likely refer back to these articles again.
Interesting read.......2002-03-20
A good, interesting read. It's full of bite-sized articles, catagorized into various groupings. My only (real) problem is that reading article-after-article on the craziness of it all, there's never any suggested course of action. Of course, that's not necessarily his 'brief', but it would have made various topics come 'full circle'. However, that's just my opinion. I would recommend this book...and you don't have to be a screaming conservative to appreciate it either!
True Classicism Revived.......2001-04-10
John Leo is frequently categorized as a conservative thinker, but such a label these days does little to indicate the actual freshness and vitality of his thought. He most resembles in this collection of occasional pieces a contemporary Dr. Johnson, for he applies a similar overwhelming good sense to a host of issues of the day. Perhaps he should be called a classical thinker. No knee jerker when commenting on contemporary matters, he is acutely aware of the claims both of the head and the heart . Underlying his treatment of the media, the educational system, etc., though, is the insistence that the head must balance the feelings in conflicts. Hence, in multiplying instances of its dismissal of facts, logic, or evidence, he exposes our age as one in which grotesque emotion seeks to, and often succeeds in, trumping reason. One leaves this collection not with a resolve to always vote Republican but instead with a determination to push for justice, but without succumbing to the forces of arrant propaganda which solicit on all sides.
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All chessplayers adore the thrill of the sacrifice, whether this is part of a checkmating attack, a defensive measure, or simply an attempt to confuse the opponent. But every sacrifice has a time and a place, and the correct use of sacrifices is a skill possessed only by a precious few. Now readers can add themselves to that list! In this ground-breaking book, Angus Dunnington acquaints readers with key aspects of all kinds of chess sacrifices, including the queen sacrifice, sacrifices in endgames, and the psychology attached to the sacrifice. Read this book and sacrifice with confidence!
*Written by an experienced chess teacher and writer
*Includes all different types of sacrifice
*Ideal for the improving player
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Excellent intro to positional thinking.......2004-05-04
This book is _not_ a slapped together data dump of random sacs, but a mini-course in improving your positional understanding.
While it does show the obligatory fun queen sacrifice, it also deals with concepts that intermediate players have trouble with: the importance of structure, weak color complexes, key squares, the virtues and weaknesses of minor pieces, exchange sacrifices.
(It's like a sacrifice-advocating version of the classic Simple Chess by Michael Stean, which is anything but simple as it discusses positional strategy.)
Both Jeremy Silman and John Donaldson like this book a great deal, and Silman calls it "fantastic" and "absolutely wonderful." Highly recommended to those who don't find serious chess texts on these important topics easy to slog through.
Good but thin.......2003-06-03
This book has a good collection of instructive sacrificial themes, especially positional ones such as the exchange sacrifice and the structurally motivated sacrifice. But it is rather thin, and I would have liked more material included. Dunnington's books are usually above average.
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Visual Basic 2005 focuses on enabling developers to rapidly build applications, with enhancements across its visual designers, code editor, language, and debugger that help accelerate the development and deployment of robust, elegant applications across the Web, a business group, or an enterprise. Now you can teach yourself the essentials of working with Microsoft Visual Studio- 2005 and the new features of the Visual Basic language#151;one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you're a beginning programmer or new to this specific language, you'll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for Visual Basic 2005. Each chapter puts you to work, showing you how, when, and why to use specific features of Visual Basic and guiding as you create actual components and working applications for Microsoft Windows-. You'll also explore data management and Web-based development topics.
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Good for starters.......2007-09-25
This book will get you going on using visual basic and visual studio 2005. I had last used visual C++ V6.0 in an academic setting, and this book helped me migrate to the latest version of visual studio and the VB.NET language quickly. The code examples provided are easy to use, and understand. I found the organizarion of the book to be just right. Now I want more.
Great for beginners!! .......2007-09-25
I'm taking a VB 2005 class in college and the book we are using is not for a true beginner (VB 2005 How to Program by Deitel), it is very fast paced and confusing at times. The book also uses console programming through most of the book (VISUAL BASIC!!! VISUAL IS THE KEYWORD); I dont know how it got a good rating. Anywho, in order to learn VB better I hunted down this book. It is well written and easy understood. He uses nice concepts and examples. I've learned more in the first 3 chapters of this book than I had the book for school. I'm half way through and understand everything I have done up to now. I would totally recommend this book to anyone who is a true beginner.
Absolute beginners only.......2007-08-22
I know PL/SQL, SQL, PHP, some Bash scripting skills and can "read" Java to a certain degree, but am new to the world of developing Windows apps, and was looking for a book to start building applications in VB .NET 2005. Unfortunately, I'll have to look elsewhere.
This book does a great job of guiding the reader trough the basic features of VB .NET 2005. Every chapter, and every section includes some basic examples, which you can either build yourself, or study from the included examples CD.
If you're totally new to programming, this is the book for you. However, if you already have experience with any programming language, this book will not do much for you. I only rate this book 4-stars because of its value as what it IS: an introduction to the language (I breezed through it, examples and all, in about 8 hours).
Good for beginners.......2007-08-08
This book is well suited for beginners or near-beginners who want to learn basic programming in VB2005. Sometimes I felt it would have helped if I had had some earlier programming knowledge/experience, this way I would have been able to grasp the consepts easier as this book does not really discuss programming-theory on a broader level. It is a good book to start with if you plan to learn more about programming in asp.net.
Better than expected.......2007-07-03
I knew the very basics of VB 2005 and was worried about buying this book however I learned a whole lot of things I never knew, it gave me a good solid base to work from a must buy for anyone wanting to get started on VB 2005.
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The Backyard Vintner: An Enthusiast's Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Wine at Home (Backyard)
