Over a Barrel: The Rise and Fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company

by Thomas Pellechia

Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Regional Category In 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper's son, started a commercial grape juice company in New York's Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was firmly established. Walter Taylor's three sons carefully guided the company through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438455496
• ISBN13: 9781438455495
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"