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Wine Grapes

A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
Jancis Robinson and Julia Harding
2012 · 1280 pages

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.

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