Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book, Named "Best Drinks Book" by Wine & Spirits magazine, Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year, OIV Best Viticulture Book
"A fantastic Christmas present for any wine geek, and one that will provide an endless source of fiendish questions for quiz-setters" ?The Guardian
An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's leading wine experts.
Where do wine grapes come from and how are grape varieties related to one another? What is the historical background of each one? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make?
Using cutting-edge DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and incorrect) synonyms, this book examines grapes and wine as never before. Here is a complete, alphabetically presented profile of all grape varieties of relevance to the wine lover, charting the relationships between them and including unique and astounding family trees, their characteristics in the vineyard, and?most important?what the wines made from them taste like.
Presented in a stunning design with eight-page gatefolds that reveal the family trees, and a rich variety of full-color illustrations from Viala and Vermorel's century-old classic ampelography, the text will deepen readers' understanding of grapes and wine with every page. Combining Jancis Robinson's worldview and nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's research, 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. This is a book for wine students, wine experts, and wine lovers everywhere.
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Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book, Named "Best Drinks Book" by Wine & Spirits magazine, Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year, OIV Best Viticulture Book
"A fantastic Christmas present for any wine geek, and one that will provide an endless source of fiendish questions for quiz-setters" ?The Guardian
An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's leading wine experts.
Where do wine grapes come from and how are grape varieties related to one another? What is the historical background of each one? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make?
Using cutting-edge DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and incorrect) synonyms, this book examines grapes and wine as never before. Here is a complete, alphabetically presented profile of all grape varieties of relevance to the wine lover, charting the relationships between them and including unique and astounding family trees, their characteristics in the vineyard, and?most important?what the wines made from them taste like.
Presented in a stunning design with eight-page gatefolds that reveal the family trees, and a rich variety of full-color illustrations from Viala and Vermorel's century-old classic ampelography, the text will deepen readers' understanding of grapes and wine with every page. Combining Jancis Robinson's worldview and nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's research, 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. This is a book for wine students, wine experts, and wine lovers everywhere.
Show moreJancis Robinson is a Master of Wine, the Financial Times wine
writer, and the author/editor of dozens of wine books, including
The Oxford Companion to Wine and The World Atlas of Wine. Her
award-winning website, www.JancisRobinson.com, has subscribers in
more than 100 countries.
Julia Harding, a Master of Wine, linguist, and fastidious editor,
is Jancis Robinson's full-time assistant 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 grape
variety.
José Vouillamoz worked with the groundbreaking team of grape
geneticists at the University of California, Davis, and is a
botanist and grape expert with an international reputation.
James Beard Awards, Best Beverage Book -- 2012Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Hall of Fame for Best Wine Book -- 2012Wine & Spirits magazine, Best Drinks Book -- 2012Roederer Awards, Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year -- 2013OIV Awards, Best Viticulture Book -- 2013Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards, Best Drink Book -- 2012André Simon Awards, Best Drink Book -- 2012"This 1,280-page book lists thousands of grapes, minor and major, precisely described. Listed in its pages are grapes I never knew existed but now, somehow, cannot forget." -- Wall Street JournalA fantastic Christmas present for any wine geek, and one that will provide an endless source of fiendish questions for quiz-setters -- The Guardian'A magnificent achievement: colossally informative, illuminating and intriguing -- Decanter.comThis book is a thing of beauty - classic, well written and splendidly illustrated - and will be a point of reference for decades to come. -- Bordeaux Undiscovered"The most important wine book in years. -- Tom Wark, Fermentation
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