Bookworm, no. 137

Christina Tommasone reviews Jill Troyer’s “The Winemaker’s Gamble.” Lindsey King on Zak Jones’s “Fancy Gap.” Inside the March issue.

In Pursuit of Grapeness

The Winemaker’s Gamble: How One Man and a Handful of Rebels Turned Niagara Wine into a Global Industry
Jill Troyer
Mosaic Press
224 pages, softcover

Picture an idyllic Niagara Peninsula landscape: quaint farmers’ markets, lush vineyards, regal châteaux. As the journalist Jill Troyer tells us in The Winemaker’s Gamble, we can thank a t…