Tasting the past
Subtitle: the science of flavor & the search for the original wine grapes
By: Kevin Begos
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781616205775
Subjects: History; Viticulture; Varieties; Wine and wine making; Grapes
Other titles: Science of flavor and the search for the origins of wine
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 275-277).
Table of contents: title: A mysterious wine; title: Archaeobiology and ancient wine; title: Cremisan; title: Israel's forgotten grapes; title: The wine scientist; title: Flavor, taste, and money; title: The Caucasus; title: Yeast, co-evolution, and wasps; title: Aphrodite, women, and wine; title: Goliath, foraging, and an answer; title: Italy, Leonardo, and natural wine; title: Wine and foie gras; title: The science of terroir; title: Coming home, and Holy Land wine; title: American wine grapes; title: The dark side of wine science; title: Grapetionary; title: The first grapes, and tasting the past.