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• Kaplan, Linda

Every aspect of winemaking, from planting the seeds to sipping chardonnay, is covered including the science of wine, the oddballs who show up for the harvest, and how to tell a good grape from a great grape and a good wine from a great wine. Filled with self-deprecating anecdotes and quick tips for the novice, Kaplan's account of her trials and tribulations sheds light the mysteries of making wine. There's even a recipe
for making 36,000 bottles of Panther Creek's pinot noir.

But Kaplan wasn't only learning about wine. She was also learning about life and about getting along in her new hometown, McMinnville, which seems torn right from the script of television's Northern Exposure. Panther Creek has since become an award-winning winery; its wine is on Wine Spectator magazine's list of the Top 100 Wines of the World.