Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours―A James Beard Award Winner by Jancis Robinson

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 "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 Journal An indispensable reference book for sommeliers and 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 profiling of vines and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and incorrect) synonyms, this encyclopedic wine reference 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. Read more