Wine Grapes: A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours

Name: Wine Grapes: A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Price: 164.42 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Jancis Robinson Jose Vouillamoz Julia Harding

An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's greatest experts.

Where do wine grapes come from and how are they related to each other? What is the historical background of each grape variety? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make and, most importantly, what do they taste like?

Using the most cutting-edge DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and highlighting almost as many incorrect) synonyms, this particularly beautiful book includes revelatory grape family trees, and a rich variety of illustrations from Viala and Vermorel's seminal ampelography with century-old illustrations. Combining Jancis Robinson's world view, nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's expertise and attention to detail plus Dr Vouillamoz's unique level of scholarship, Wine Grapes offers essential and original information in greater depth and breadth than has ever been available before. A book for wine students, wine experts and wine lovers everywhere.

AWARDS

Best Wine, Beer and Spirits Book and winner of the Jane Grigson award, IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Awards 2014
A wine book of the year, 2013, The Times, London
Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year 2013, Roederer Awards
Best Viticulture Book 2013, OIV Awards
Best Drink Book 2012, Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards
Best Beverage Book 2012, James Beard Awards
Best Drink Book 2012, André Simon Awards
Hall of Fame for Best Wine Book 2012, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Best Drinks Book 2012, Wine & Spirits magazine
One of the V&A's '100 books essential for preserving humanity'

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Weight: 3082g
Dimensions: 193 x 290mm
Publication Date: 25 Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781846144462

About Jancis RobinsonJose VouillamozJulia Harding

JANCIS ROBINSON is one of the world's best-known wine writers. In 1984 she was the first person outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine. The Financial Times wine writer she is the author/editor of dozens of wine books including two of the most respected and garlanded The Oxford Companion to Wine (OUP) and The World Atlas of Wine (Mitchell Beazley). She is widely regarded by the wine-drinking public as an authority on vine varieties. Her award-winning website www.JancisRobinson.com has subscribers in 100 countries. JULIA HARDING passed the notoriously stiff Master of Wine exams at the first attempt the top student of her year. She is Jancis Robinson's full-time researcher co-ordinator and associate palate. In this book she has gathered the most up-to-date statistics about wine-grape plantings in every corner of the planet as well as unearthing recommended wine producers for almost every variety. JOSÉ VOUILLAMOZ who worked with Professor Carole Meredith and the ground-breaking team of grape geneticists at the University of California at Davis is a botanist and grape geneticist with an international reputation and is currently based in his native Switzerland. He has discovered numerous unexpected relationships between grape varieties many of which are exclusive to this book.