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Tasting the past : the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes / Kevin Begos

By:

Begos, Kevin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin books of Chapel Hill , 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 277 p. : illus. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781616205775

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

634.83 BEG

LOC classification:

SB398.28 .B44 2018

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	634.83 BEG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006704

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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.

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