The search for wine’s origins

Fresh grapes are piled into buckets before being transported back to an Italian farmhouse to be squeezed into homemade wine. Photo credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Liliana Moreno

Journalist Kevin Begosset out to trace the origins and history of wine.  It’s a journey that took him from the Caucasus Mountains to Greece, Italy, and France and finally back to America.  It’s the subject of his book, “Tasting the Past”. 

Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine by Kevin Begos.  Image courtesy of Workman Publishing