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Wine beverage, more than any other food or beverage, is intimately associated with spiritual experience and celebratory rituals. Nowhere is this seen more evidently than in American ethnic history. In the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and roll to the Franciscans and Jesuits who pioneered California's Quest Path, many American spiritual teams have required wine to perform their sacraments and enliven their evening meals. This audiobook instructs the story of how viniculture in America was began and suffered by a broad spectrum of spiritual denominations. Along the way, it includes new insights into the special relationship between wine development and usage and the religious dimension of human being experience.