How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.
Thomas Pellechia is an independent journalist and writer who previously produced wine in the Finger Lakes and operated a wine shop in Manhattan. He is the author of Wine: The 8,000-Year-Old Story of the Wine Trade, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Winery, and Timeless Bounty: Food and Wine in New York's Finger Lakes. He lives in Hammondsport, New York.
