Tasting the past : the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes
Begos, Kevin
Tasting the past : the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes / Kevin Begos - First edition. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin books of Chapel Hill , 2018 - 277 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A mysterious wine -- Archaeobiology and ancient wine -- Cremisan -- Israel's forgotten grapes -- The wine scientist -- Flavor, taste, and money -- The Caucasus -- Yeast, co-evolution, and wasps -- Aphrodite, women, and wine -- Goliath, foraging, and an answer -- Italy, Leonardo, and natural wine -- Wine and foie gras -- The science of terroir -- Coming home, and Israel's wine -- American wine grapes -- The dark side of wine science -- Grapetionary -- The first grapes, and tasting the past.
When journalist Kevin Begos sets out to discover the origins of wine, he finds a whole world of forgotten grapes and meets the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor.
English.
9781616205775
Grapes---Varieties
Grapes---History
Viticulture
Wines and wine making
SB398.28 / .B44 2018
634.83 BEG
Tasting the past : the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes / Kevin Begos - First edition. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin books of Chapel Hill , 2018 - 277 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A mysterious wine -- Archaeobiology and ancient wine -- Cremisan -- Israel's forgotten grapes -- The wine scientist -- Flavor, taste, and money -- The Caucasus -- Yeast, co-evolution, and wasps -- Aphrodite, women, and wine -- Goliath, foraging, and an answer -- Italy, Leonardo, and natural wine -- Wine and foie gras -- The science of terroir -- Coming home, and Israel's wine -- American wine grapes -- The dark side of wine science -- Grapetionary -- The first grapes, and tasting the past.
When journalist Kevin Begos sets out to discover the origins of wine, he finds a whole world of forgotten grapes and meets the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor.
English.
9781616205775
Grapes---Varieties
Grapes---History
Viticulture
Wines and wine making
SB398.28 / .B44 2018
634.83 BEG
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