Ohio's Lake Erie Wineries

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Ohio''s Lake Erie wineries and vineyards are rooted in tradition

• Ohio's Lake Erie Wineries available on December 21 2015 from Indigo for 24.99
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738582818 ξ1 registered October 12 2020
  
• ISBN bar code 9780738582818 ξ2 registered November 19 2015
  
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• Sku # 978073858281
  

European immigrants settled on the Lake Erie islands and nearby shoreline in the mid-1800s, and the grape industry flourished in Ohio into the early 20th century. Industrialization from Cleveland to Toledo swallowed up prime growing property along the lakeshore, but many farms continued to grow grapes. During Prohibition, wine making went underground. When it ended, restaurant owners bottled their own fortified wines and some of the wineries started mass producing wine with new equipment. The wines of Ohio, like those all over the eastern United States, were mostly sweet and made from native labrusca grapes. In the 1960s, Ohio''s serious winemakers learned how to cultivate European-style vinifera grapes along Lake Erie''s shore and on the islands. Chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon grapes now grow alongside Concord and Catawba. Today, more than 40 wineries stretch across northern Ohio.

^ Images of America Ser.: Ohio's Lake Erie Wineries by Lee Klingshirn and Claudia J. Taller (2011, Trade Paperback) ISBN 9780738582818 (revised Mar 2021)
^ Ohio's Lake Erie Wineries Indigo. ISBN 9780738582818 (revised Dec 2015)