Grounded: Down to Earth in California Wine Country

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• Trading his reporter’s notebook for a farmer’s implements and winemaker’s tools, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Patrick Dillon offers a deeply self-effacing account of diving into a dream to make gold medal wines and discovers unforeseen obstacles and harsh realities. “Grounded, Down to Earth in California Wine Country” combines “Under the Tuscan Sun” with “Kitchen Confidential.” On the surface he encounters spectacular failures, but over time he gains passage into an intriguing and enduring community.