{"product_id":"over-a-barrel-the-rise-and-fall-of-new-yorks-taylor-wine-company-9781438455501","title":"Over a Barrel: The Rise and Fall of New York's Taylor Wine Company","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2015 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Regional Category \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1880, Walter Stephen Taylor, a cooper's son, started a commercial grape juice company in New York's Finger Lakes region. Two years later, wine production was added, and by the 1920s, the Taylor Wine Company was firmly established. Walter Taylor's three sons carefully guided the company through Prohibition and beyond, making it the most important winery in the Northeast and profoundly affecting the people and community of Hammondsport, where the company was headquartered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s, the Taylor family took the company public. Ranked sixth in domestic wine production and ripe for corporate takeover, the company was sold to Coca-Cola in 1977. Three more changes of corporate ownership followed until, in 1995, this once-dynamic and important wine producer was obliterated, tearing apart the local economy and changing a way of life that had lasted for nearly a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on archival research as well as interviews with many of the principal players, Thomas Pellechia skillfully traces the economic dynamism of the Finger Lakes wine region, the passion and ingenuity of the Taylor family, and the shortsighted corporate takeover scenario that took down a once-proud American family company. In addition to providing important lessons for business innovators, \u003ci\u003eOver a Barrel\u003c\/i\u003e is a cautionary tale for a wine region that is repeating its formative history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Excelsior Editions\/State University of New Yo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438455501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Thomas Pellechia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52507531575477,"sku":"9781438455501","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1880d037-e639-4208-8f16-a93a6d7328e0.jpg?v=1778565589","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/over-a-barrel-the-rise-and-fall-of-new-yorks-taylor-wine-company-9781438455501","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}