CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Map of Napa Valley, 2012
Prologue
1. John Shafer
2. January 1973
3. A Wine Country Emerges from a Wilderness
4. The Pendulum Swings
5. Arrival—1973
6. Grapes
7. Cabernet
8. Grape Future
9. Alfonso
10. 1976
11. Hillside Cabernet
12. Family Winery
13. Selling Wine
14. Libby
15. New York
16. Chain Saws
17. Napa Vintners
18. Arson
19. Trouble
20. January 1983
21. 1982 Cabernet
22. Other Labels
23. Elias
24. Napa Valley Wine Technical Group
25. The Food–Wine Era
26. Hillside Select
27. The Good, the Bad, and the Very Bad
28. The War of the Apostrophes
29. The AVA
30. The District
31. The Hearing
32. Chardonnay
33. Killer Bugs
34. Sustainability
35. Identity Crisis
36. Down and Up Again
37. Sangio-what?
38. Identity Crisis (This Time It’s Personal)
39. Nonstop Nineties
40. Syrah
41. Cults
42. El Niño
43. A New Millennium
44. Going Solar
45. Hospitality
46. Television Gets Real
47. The Internet
48. Points
49. The Downside
Postscript: Stags Leap at Last
Index
