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“Vinaceous Correspondents: Martin Ray’s Friendships with Eminent Oenophiles”
by Barbara Marinacci ©

IN APRIL 2003, THE WAYWARD TENDRILS QUARTERLY, introduced one of its most popular and long-running series: “Vinaceous Correspondents: Martin Ray’s Friendships with Eminent Oenophiles” by Barbara Marinacci. Over a period of five years, in twenty-three installments (Vol.13 No.2 – Vol.18 No.4) and some 252 pages, this superby written, fascinating, in-depth story portrays – primarily through correspondence and other written materials – the winegrowing life and wine quality-demanding actions of the notoriously pugnacious vintner, Martin Ray [1904–1976]. Author Barbara Marinacci, who is Martin Ray’s stepdaughter, earlier coauthored with her mother, Eleanor Ray, the 1993 book, Vineyards in the Sky: The Life of Legendary Vintner Martin Ray.

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