The American Vine-Dresser’s Guide

Being a Treatise on the Cultivation of the Vine, and the Process of Wine Making Adapted to the Soil and Climate of the United States

Published in Cincinnati in 1826, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection by a wine connoisseur who established the first commercial vineyard in America is an amazingly thorough work on grape growing and wine making specifically adapted to the United States’ climate and soil. Authored by wine connoisseur John James DeFour, who established the…