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Begos, Kevin,
(Kevin Paul.)
Tasting the past :
the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes /
Kevin Begos.
Science of flavor and the search for the original wine grapes.
First edition.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2018.
277 pages :
illustrations, map ;
22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277).
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 Holy Land 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"--
Provided by publisher.
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Grapes
Varieties.
Grapes
History.
Viticulture.
Wine and wine making
History.
Begos, Kevin (Kevin Paul), author.,
First edition.