Over a Barrel
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Over a Barrel 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 Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered. In the 1960s, the Taylor family took the company public. Ranked sixth in domestic wine production and ripe for corporate takeover, the company was sold to Coca-Cola in 1977. Three more changes of corporate ownership followed until, in 1995, this once-dynamic and important wine producer was obliterated, tearing apart the local economy and changing a way of life that had lasted for nearly a century. Drawing on archival research as well as interviews with many of the principal players, Thomas Pellechia skillfully traces the economic dynamism of the Finger Lakes wine region, the passion and ingenuity of the Taylor family, and the shortsighted corporate takeover scenario that took down a once-proud American family company. In addition to providing important lessons for business innovators, Over a Barrel is a cautionary tale for a wine region that is repeating its formative history.
Thomas Pellechia is an independent writer who specializes in food and wine. He has authored dozens of magazine articles about fine cuisine, and has been a newspaper columnist in western New York for more than two decades. Thomas has also written and published books on the food and drink industry, including Over a Barrel: The Rise and Fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Winery.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438455495 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438455496 |
| Title | Over a Barrel |
| Author | Thomas Pellechia |
| Series | Excelsior Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2015-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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