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Article: Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 2000
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Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy, by Brian McGinty. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 579 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
Strong Wine traces the life of Agoston Haraszthy who immigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1840. Among many other distinctions, Haraszthy, pronounced Harris-tee, is widely regarded as the "Father of Winemaking in California." McGinty, a great-great grandson of Haraszthy, probes the controversy among wine historians on whether this label is deserved and provides copious detail on the many other fascinating aspects of Haraszthy's life. His account is fluid and engaging and based on ...