Wine Across America: A Photographic Road Trip

By Daphne Larkin

It was while enjoying a friend's bottle of out-of-state wine that renowned Napa Valley wine photographer Charles O'Rear and his wife, Daphne, decided to embark on the ultimate wine road trip. Eighteen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962522767
• ISBN13: 9780962522765
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Wineviews Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 1.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Wine Across America

This book is full of beautiful pictures of Vineyards across America. A great coffee table book.

More than great photos

Wine Across America is more than just a pretty face. Along with drop-dead gorgeous photos, the reader will find lively text full of fascinating information on U.S. wine regions both familiar and little-known. Vineyards are planted in the Arizona desert. The first American AVA was in Missouri. Who knew? And, sprinkled through the text are factoids certain to delight the lover of wine trivia. Here's a book that should appeal to novice and connoisseur alike.

A Great Gift Book

This handsome coffee table book would make a fantastic gift for anyone interested in wine or who lives in the areas the book covers. It's based on a surprising notion: that wine is made in each of the 50 American states -- yes, even North Dakota, Hawaii, Alaska, and all those other places you are at first stunend to learn are actually turning out decent wine in gorgeous surroundings, which these photographs make clear. The photos and text, mostly in the form of captions, but also short essays, take you on a lovely journey around America's wine countries -- all 50 of them!

A Fine Book about Good Wine

If you think that there's no more juice to squeeze from the vine that yields books about wine, you had better think again. And if you believe that good wines come only from the favored regions of California, you're in for a delightful surprise. Because the luminous new volume from photographer Chuck O'Rear and his writer wife, Daphne Larkin, celebrates how the skills and values involved in making fine wine have spread very quietly until the art now stretches from sea to shining sea...and beyond. In fact, as this book makes graphically clear, wine is produced in all fifty states and much of it is quite good. Spread over 224 thick, glossy pages,Wine Across America: A Photographic Road Trip, turns up some fascinating people, uncovers some unique locations, and delivers more happy surprises than a great bottle of Cabernet, like three pages of coast-to-coast labels and a four page fold-out photograph that seems to surround the reader. Their evidence that wine-making has spread to every state is compelling, but what this talented team has produced goes a long way beyond just the facts. O'Rear's photographic eye is always on point and just about every photo in the book is gallery-worthy (which one might expect from someone who has been responsible for more than 25 National Geographic articles). Larkin's ear for the rhythms of the regions and her enthusiasm for her subjects make the spare text a joy. I wish there even more stories by the winemakers explaining why and how they became so totally involved with the vine and barrel. But that's a small quibble. The bottom line is that for anyone who likes wine and enjoys people, Wine Across America is a great choice. Michael Creedman

Photographic Road Trip for Wine Lovers

This is a beautiful book for anyone who appreciates good wine and great photography. Mr. O'Rear, a long time National Geographic shooter, has made a specialty of photographing the wine industry the world over, and this book came about when he discovered that there were working wineries in every state in the country. Along with writer Daphne Larkin, He set out on a two-year, 80,000 mile odyssey to photograph them. The result is a stunning collection of beautiful, and informative photographs, and insightful text. Mr. O'Rear gives it the full, National Geographic treatment, so we see great landscapes, graphic aerials, and insightful portraits. The layout, printing, and pacing of the book are first rate, and the thoroughness of the coverage even includes reproductions of bottles and labels from all 50 states. It's the perfect gift for the wine lover or photographer in the family.