2008 Wine Literary Award

Posted by Alan Boehmer Mar 4, 2008

Charles Sullivan has been called the Dean of Wine Historians and rightly so. His monumental two-volume work, "A History of Wine in America," contains a thousand pages of 8 pt (?) text and 161 pages of notes. It is an exhaustive affair that deals with every aspect and corner of viticulture in America from its inception in South Carolina in 1567 to the present. The book is current, including descriptions of reverse osmosis and spinning cones to reduce alcohol in wine and offers thoughts about the future of wine and wine making in the coming years.

The award ceremony will be held at the California Culinary Institute in San Francisco on April 25, 2008. It is open only to invited members of the wine writing community and around 1,000 distinguished wines will be offered for tasting, along with a lunch prepared by the students of the CCI and an awards dinner in the evening.

Previous winners of this prestigious award include Robert M. Parker, Jr., Gerald Asher, Anthony Dias Blue, Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson, Michael Broadbent, Robert Balzer and others.