Book · 2012 · Nonfiction
Wine Grapes
A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
Ecco/HarperCollins (HarperCollins) · 1280 pages
★ 4.5 editorial score
Every grape that makes wine, 1,368 of them, traced by DNA to its parents and described by flavor. Zinfandel is revealed as a Croatian vine, and Sauvignon Blanc descends from Savagnin.
