The World Atlas of Wine
1971 · 416 pages
Wine as geography: Johnson and Robinson map every serious vineyard region on earth, down to the slope and soil, so you can see why one hillside tastes different from the next field over.
★ 4.5
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Wine Grapes
A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
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.
★ 4.5