01945cam a2200349 i 4500 349234436 TxAuBib 20180619120000.0 170930s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017046783 9781616205775 1616205776 TxAuBib rda 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. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20180619. Grapes Varieties. Grapes History. Viticulture. Wine and wine making History. Begos, Kevin (Kevin Paul), author., First edition.