The Mad Crush: An Obscure California Vineyard and the Quest to Make One Great Wine

Introducing the expanded second edition of the cult winemaking memoir, now with 30 pages of added storytelling and a new afterword by the author. In the summer of 1974, a young man named Bill Greenough found his way to a remote California canyon where a century-old Zinfandel vineyard had been lost to history. Toiling alone with nothing more than a pick and shovel, Greenough embarked on an audacious dream: to bring the abandoned vines back to life and start his own fledgling winery. He devot...