article placeholder  Review, The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape
and the Untold Story of American Wine  Author Todd Kliman’s
history of the American grape, Norton’s Virginia Seedling,
starts off in an almost sultry manner as he teases the reader by
veiling his intent. What begins to look like an unhealthy
promotion of a single vineyard, Chrysalis, breaks the bonds of
being a wine book and launches into the story of an American
epic, a battle against nature and God: the stuff of Manifest
Destiny as fought by American outsiders.