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020 _a9781616205775
050 0 0 _aSB398.28
_b.B44 2018
082 1 _a634.83 BEG
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100 1 _aBegos, Kevin
245 1 0 _aTasting the past :
_bthe science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes
_c/ Kevin Begos
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aChapel Hill, NC
_b: Algonquin books of Chapel Hill
_c, 2018
300 _a277 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 22 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aA 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.
520 _aWhen 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.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aGrapes
_x-Varieties
650 4 _aGrapes
_x-History
650 4 _aViticulture
650 4 _aWines and wine making
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