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Not so long ago, wine was an only European product. Now it is carefully American; emblematic of Napa Valley, a location idealized as the epicenter of great wines and foods and a cultural tourist destination. But the romanticized accounts you discover about it and its denizens is not what you'll face in Adam Conaway's candid e book. Napa at Last Light exposes the often shadowy side of the latter days of Napa Valley - proclaimed by sophisticated personal relationships, immense profits, passionate values, and sometimes eager battles to prevail. In the balance hang fortunes and personal human relationships made through effort and, in way too many situations, manipulation of regulations, people, and establishments. Napans who grew up trusting in the beneficence of the "vintner" category now confront in the 21-century multinational companies and their allies who have stealthily subsumed the old family landmarks and empty the once glorious conviction that agriculture is the best and best use of the land. Inherent in that conviction is the sanctity of the area, threatened now with a relentless drive for income at the expense of land, drinking water, and even life.
