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File Size: 3123 KB
Print Length: 319 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (October 6, 2015)
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B00R1AWDJS
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This is an alluring book about a fraudster, Mark Anderson, who has a passion for photography and wine. It was his latter love that led to his downfall. He might have had a better life had he stuck to photography, instead, at the age of 61, he was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison for fraud and arson. Anderson’s love for wine brought him into contact with wine makers and wine lovers and he then started a small wine storage company called Sausalito Cellars. He soon realised that the wines left in his cellars by his clients were extremely valuable. He then started selling wines to restaurants and retailers. The problem was that he was not selling his own wine. He was selling his clients’ wine. When attention and pressure mounted on Sausalito Cellars, Anderson moved to a rented bay area in a much larger wine storage company called Wines central. Even then, clients fed by one story after another, queried him and many asked to inspect or have their wines delivered up. The police started an investigation and he was charged on 10 counts of embezzlement. There was only one way to destroy the evidence – Anderson set fire to Wines Central. The book is a fascinating mix of wine makers and wine lovers. Dinkelspiel even discovered her own family’s connection to the history of wine-making in America. She also relates the stories of famous vintners whose wines were destroyed in the fire by Anderson, people like Delia Viader of Viader Vineyards, and Ted Hall of Long Meadow Ranch. There is also a chapter on famous wine frauds including the interesting story of Rudy Kurniawan, the wine counterfeiter who sold fake wines so successfully, until he tried to sell a 1927 Domaine Ponsot. The problem was, there was no such wine and it was Laurence Ponsot of Domaine Ponsot who unravelled Kurniawan’s operations, leading to an FBI raid at Kuniarwan’s home. This book set off to answer the big question Dinkelspiel sought to answer, ‘What is the allure of wine?’ The answer, she found, and illustrated throughout the many connections in this book, was, ‘Wine brings people together’.
I lived in the Bay Area at the time of the wine warehouse fire at Mare Island. I accidentally ran across this book on Amazon.What was more interesting than the arson was the number of scammers in the business. Mark Anderson, the arsonist, lived in Orinda where I also lived but had never heard of him. At the time of the fire he lived in Sausalito and was a 'respected' member of the community. Mark sold much of his wine to Premier Cru in Oakland, who took a big loss. Premier is in the news now, having sold futures mainly to Chinese and Japanese buyers and not making delivery. As with Mark, their reasons for failure are vague and not believable.Francis' relatives owned vineyards in Los Angeles...and she spends much of the book on the history of the area...also very fascinating. Once, the Cucamonga area had more acreage in grapes than both Sonoma and Napa and was the biggest wine region in the U.S.!The book is available in hardcover and as an e-book. Check it out! Fascinating and well-written
Gold. Aerospace. Agriculture. Filmmaking and television. Computers and consumer electronics. Wine. Viewed through the lens of business and commerce, these industries dominate the history of the State of California. Examining any one of them as it has evolved over the three centuries since Spanish monks seized control of the land helps illuminate how California has become the wealthy and populous state it is today. In Tangled Vines, journalist Frances Dinkelspiel tells the colorful story of California’s wine industry, enriching our understanding of the state’s history — and she makes it read like a thriller.Tangled Vines recounts the 18th-century origins of the state’s wine industry in the rising demand for sacramental wine for use in the Catholic missions that were the first centers of European settlement in California. For two centuries, Californios (Spanish-speaking settlers) dominated the field until the Gold Rush brought tens of thousands of English-speakers to the state, newcomers who gained the ascendancy through hard work, shrewd investment, as well as fraud and even murder.As Dinkelspiel tells the story, California’s wine industry didn’t come into its own until late in the 19th century when it finally gained acceptance on the East Coast of the U.S. as an alternative to fine European wines. The industry flourished, its center of gravity moving from Southern California to San Francisco, until the advent of Prohibition in 1920 — and then collapsed. Revival, and the rise of Napa and Sonoma counties, came late in the 1960s through the pioneering efforts of Robert Mondavi. We all know the rest.The focal point of Dinkelspiel’s tale is the tragic 2005 fire that destroyed as much as $250 million worth of wine stored at the cavernous Wines Central warehouse in Vallejo. Set by a 300-pound, self-styled wine expert named Mark Anderson in an attempt to cover up his theft over many years of millions of dollars worth of wine entrusted to his care, the fire occasioned years of shameful antics by Anderson to delay action against him in both civil and criminal courts. Only seven years after the fire was the arsonist and thief sent to prison for a 27-year term that would end after he turned 87.From the recently canonized Father Junipero Serra to Mark Anderson himself, the tale related in Tangled Vines is crammed with fascinating characters. It’s a great read.Frances Dinkelspiel, a former reporter for the San Jose Mercury-News and co-founder of the popular website Berkeleyside, is also the author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California. Hellman, the author’s great-great grandfather, also figures prominently in Tangled Vines, which is her second book.
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