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–“Most people don’t know how special we are,” explains Libbie Agran, co-author with Heather Muran of the new book San Luis Obispo County Wine: A World-Class History. “I wanted people to realize there had been a long history of very talented people here, because Prohibition didn’t destroy our wine industry,” she said in a recent interview with Santa Barbara-based newspaper, The Independent, pointing to the many pioneer families who still have ties to the region today. “We have a consistency that most counties don’t have.”
The 190-page paperback which is broken into numerous short but detailed chapters that go from the 1700s to today and are full of archival photographs is the culmination of years of research that began when Agran founded the Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo County in 2015.