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