Varietal Tendencies: The Crush Chronicles - Softcover

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Multi-generational winemaking saga spanning World War II to present day, featuring Nazi plunder, San Francisco during the 60's and modern day Pinot Noir production in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Jack Miller is a young Oregon winemaker whose grandfather Henry, the most famous winemaker in California, has a shaman-like way of assigning uncannily appropriate varietal totems to family members at birth: Jack's father Anthony, for example--shy, meticulous, cool and complicated--is Pinot Noir, and Jack's sister Sunflower, with her charming personality and blond and copper-colored hair, is Pinot Gris. At the outset of the story, Aunt Cherise (syrah) has committed suicide, leaving Jack thousands of acres in the Yakima Valley. Unbeknownst to the family, it's planted in lucrative Bordeaux varietals and the (fictional) Washington Wine Guild has sent a lawyer to make sure that Jack renews the lease. The sub-story is told by Jack at a winemakers dinner tonight in Eugene, Oregon, involving flashbacks to Henry's reconnaissance missions in World War II to recover wine stolen by the Nazis hidden in Italy, and his fathers accidental acid trip at a Grateful Dead concert in the 60's where he's counseled by an imaginary dancing bear to move to Oregon and make Pinot Noir to achieve the perfect balance of acid and sugar. Wine lovers will read this odyssey quickly and share the story with others over their next great bottle of wine.

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