Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker with Nicholas O'Connell
Mon, Mar 30
|Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
A reading and Q&A
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Mar 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
About the Event
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is delighted to welcome author and Folio member Nicholas O'Connell for a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world's most prestigious wineries on the West Coast in his latest book Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker.
This insider's view of the wine world includes the intense competition for the best grapes, the bizarre lingo of the tasting rooms, and the visionary winemakers who magically transform grapes into high-end wine. It is a world that includes not only romance and refinement but long hours, backbreaking labor, mind-numbing repetition, and fanatical dedication to quality. Such devotion resulted in the 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet that won the best red wine at the 1976 Judgment of Paris and transformed the U.S. wine industry.
O'Connell's quest to master the art of wine making begins in his garage. From there he embarks on an apprenticeship…
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