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Wine Grapes
Jancis Robinson
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Description for Wine Grapes
Hardcover. Where do wine grapes come from and how are they related to each other? What is the historical background of each grape variety? Where are they grown? Using DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct synonyms, this book includes revelatory grape family trees, and a rich variety of illustrations. Num Pages: 1280 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: TVSW; WBXD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 289 x 80. Weight in Grams: 3022.
An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's greatest experts.
Where do wine grapes come from and how are they related to each other? What is the historical background of each grape variety? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make and, most importantly, what do they taste like?
Using the most cutting-edge DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and highlighting almost as many incorrect) synonyms, this particularly beautiful book includes revelatory grape family trees, and a rich variety of illustrations from ... Read moreViala and Vermorel's seminal ampelography with century-old illustrations. Combining Jancis Robinson's world view, nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's 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. A book for wine students, wine experts and wine lovers everywhere.
AWARDS
Best Wine, Beer and Spirits Book and winner of the Jane Grigson award, IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Awards 2014
A wine book of the year, 2013, The Times, London
Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year 2013, Roederer Awards
Best Viticulture Book 2013, OIV Awards
Best Drink Book 2012, Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards
Best Beverage Book 2012, James Beard Awards
Best Drink Book 2012, André Simon Awards
Hall of Fame for Best Wine Book 2012, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Best Drinks Book 2012, Wine & Spirits magazine
One of the V&A's '100 books essential for preserving humanity'
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Jancis Robinson
JANCIS ROBINSON is one of the world's best-known wine writers. In 1984 she was the first person outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine. The Financial Times wine writer, she is the author/editor of dozens of wine books, including two of the most respected and garlanded, The Oxford Companion to Wine (OUP) and The World Atlas ... Read moreof Wine (Mitchell Beazley). She is widely regarded by the wine-drinking public as an authority on vine varieties. Her award-winning website, www.JancisRobinson.com, has subscribers in 100 countries. JULIA HARDING passed the notoriously stiff Master of Wine exams at the first attempt, the top student of her year. She is Jancis Robinson's full-time researcher, co-ordinator 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 variety. JOSÉ VOUILLAMOZ, who worked with Professor Carole Meredith and the ground-breaking team of grape geneticists at the University of California at Davis, is a botanist and grape geneticist with an international reputation and is currently based in his native Switzerland. He has discovered numerous unexpected relationships between grape varieties, many of which are exclusive to this book. Show Less
Reviews for Wine Grapes
This thousand-plus-page monument combines 21st-century science with the ambition, scale and authority of 19th-century scholarship. It may be the nerdiest wine book ever published (and, trust me, that's a competitive title) but it's also a work of astounding scholarship, and as a piece of book-making, is an outright masterpiece
John Lanchester
Guardian, Books of the Year 2012
... Read moreFeatures extraordinarily detailed profiles of close to 1,400 vine varieties employed in the production of wine around the world ... I learned a huge amount ... What struck me most, though, was how engaging and passionate it was. This wasn't a dry cataloguing of grapes, a microscopic look at their DNA; this was a heartfelt exploration of wine history.
Max Allen [Australia’s best-known wine writer]
Weekend Australian
This book is a thing of beauty - classic, well written and splendidly illustrated - and will be a point of reference for decades to come. With Christmas coming it may well be worth considering as a present for those wine enthusiasts amongst your friends and family. I am going to put it on my list when I write to Santa that's for sure!
Bordeaux Undiscovered
A fantastic Christmas present for any wine geek, and one that will provide an endless source of fiendish questions for quiz-setters
Fiona Beckett
Guardian
A magnificent achievement: colossally informative, illuminating and intriguing
Andrew Jefford
Decanter.com
A phenomenal book in its detail and research ... the definitive guide to grape varieties ... an incredible piece of work, detailing 1,368 varieties (out of a possible 10,000 worldwide) with 80 beautiful colour plates - essential for all wine students, wine lovers, wine growers keen to experiment with new grapes - and anyone with a passing interest in grapes
Rose Murray Brown
The Scotsman
This has got to be the wine reference book to top all such guides
S Irene Virbila
Los Angeles Times
Definitely the WINE BOOK of the decade, if not the century!
Wine Appreciation Guild, San Francisco
Even for the already knowledgeable and deeply well versed, the book offers countless new discoveries, surprises about grapes' true origins and kinships, and a plethora of varieties you've never even heard of
Michel Jamais
LivetsGoda.se
It is almost bible-like, which is perhaps quite fitting. I found the overall appearance quite beautiful. I was especially pleased to see many varieties have a description of the taste of their wines. From a drinker's perspective this must be the most important information
Steve Slatcher
Winenous.co.uk
Wine Grapes sets a new standard; it is a seminal new work
Joelle Thomson
Dominion Post and Christchurch Press
Oenophiles, you have here the ideal book to give others (and yourself!) this Christmas
Victor Franco
Polakia.com
Every wine lover MUST have this on their shelves
René Langdahl Jørgensen
Gastro.dk
Amazingly informative and insightful ... Wine Grapes is an essential reference that belongs on every wine lover's bookshelf, right up there next to The World Atlas of Wine. One of the biggest pleasures of wine is its diversity. Wine Grapes will inspire you to stick your nose and tongue into new aromas and flavors
Elin McCoy
Business Week/Bloomberg.com
There have been books on grapes before, but we were badly in need of a bang up-to-date properly researched book, and we indeed have it in the new Wine Grapes. To me it is already indispensable ... I can already see that this big fat book is a fabulous resource and essential for all serious wine lovers to own
Wink Lorch
Winetravelmedia.com
Wine Grapes is an invaluable resource destined to find a fascinated, albeit niche, audience
Anthony Rose
anthonyrosewine.com
What seemed at first like a prim reference tome to crack when I needed to sort out the 13 different varieties of Lambrusco has a more compelling mystery underneath ... The thoroughness (Listán Negro and Listán Prieto? Not the same thing, Canary Island fans) is matched by a sense of purpose, mostly because equal space is devoted to the esoteric (Grillo, Menu Pineau, Parellada) as to the obvious ... Along the way, it nullifies most simple homilies that litter the world of wine, instead offering a more complicated and interesting tale, one that reinforces wine as one of history's great culturing forces
Jon Bonné
San Francisco Chronicle
It is very rare for me to buy a wine book but I had no hesitation in buying it from Amazon for £78, and cheap for this amount of scholarship and research
Jim Budd, editor
Circle [of Wine Writers] Update
The ultimate reference work on wine grapes
LeVinPerdu.be
I am impressed by the depth of scientifically justified and clearly formulated answers to a wide range of origin-related questions ... Wine Grapes gains an extra dimension for its attention to the diversity of grape-names ... With this book Jancis Robinson and her team have not only enriched our genetic knowledge of grape varieties, but also made it accessible to all wine enthusiasts who would like to know more about their names, ancestors and characteristics ... The most important wine book since The Oxford Companion to Wine has arrived, and with it Jancis Robinson has universally established her name as wine educator
John Bindels
Wijnwijs.eu
It will undoubtedly race to its place ahead of the few other 'must stock' books in any serious winey-person's library ... the book genuinely breaks new ground, which is (a) quite rare for wine books, and (b) always a joy to fact-nerds like myself. Its main premise is to genetically trace the origins and ancestors of these grape varieties, and there are some surprises here
Sally Easton MW
Winewisdom.com
The most important wine book in years ... I am presented with a tome that will garner my attention for the rest of my life, make me smarter and give me pause to reconsider every time I imagine I might have done something of significance ... this book could easily pass for any writer's proudest moment, the culmination of a life's work
Tom Wark
Fermentation
Wine Grapes - the new book from the @JancisRobinson team - incredible! Staggered by the detail. Seminal work, am speechless, thank you
Ronan Sayburn MS
In 'Abbuoto to Zweigelt' describes the book as one 'that I think any wine-lover would want to own'
Fiona Beckett
Guardian
An extraordinary new book ... an impressive new encyclopedic doorstop
Eric Asimov
New York Times
Some things you know you just have to have ... What a book!
Actor Sam Neill @ TwoPaddocks
[the] book is for me a sine qua Doon
Randall Grahm
Bonny Doon Vinyard
The most important event of the century so far... In its way this book is the equivalent to Diderot's Encyclopedie, Johnson's Dictionary or Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Robert Slotover
Slotovino
...a beautiful object and a work of scholarship... an essential Christmas present for wine lovers
Henry Jeffreys
The Lady
The grape book to end all grape books
Joanna Simon
House & Garden
The only important new standard work of recent times; revolutionary!
Stuart Pigott Despite its density, a page-turner... An epic book
Talia Baiocchi
Eater.com
In short, if you are only going to have one wine grape book, then this is it
Mark Greenaway
Vinodiversity.com
Setting aside the book's beauty and reference value, there's a lot of good reading here... Wine Grapes is awesome, a reference that anyone interested in wine, botany, culture and history should have on hand
Tara Q. Thomas
Wine & Spirits: BEST BOOK OF 2012
According to Wine Grapes, the Pinot family, Noir, Meunier, Gris and Blanc, are genetically identical. In fact more than one type of Pinot has been found in the same vine. It's one of the things I love most about wine is that just when you think you've grasped something, it slips out of your grasp. Buy this amazing work of scholarship and you'll realise quite how little you know.
Henry Jeffreys
Henry’s World of Booze
The most complete guide ever to grapes, vines and the bottles they produce. A wine buff's bible
Sunday Telegraph, Stella magazine
A masterly work ... not only timely, but overdue ... a must-have
Eric Asimov
New York Times
Graced with lavish color plates depicting dozens of important grape varieties, this trusty encyclopedia will inspire novel wine match-ups for favorite recipes and settle wine trivia debates around the dinner table. History buffs, like your reviewer, will absolutely love how the book examines the earliest written references to their favorite grapes; for example we learn that Cabernet grapes trace back to ancient Basque varieties in northeast Spain; who knew!
David Lincoln Ross
Saveur
For anyone serious about wine, this is an endlessly fascinating volume - and a beautifully designed one too
Andrew Neather
Evening Standard
The most magnum of magna opera ... with the authoritative text and lovely illustrations reminiscent of a great, scholarly botanical book of the 19th century with its full colour plates ... a timeless classic
Wine-Pages.com
Best Wine, Beer and Spirits Book and winner of the Jane Grigson award
IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Awards 2014 A wine book of the year, 2013
The Times
Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year 2013
Roederer Awards Best Viticulture Book 2013
OIV Awards Best Drink Book 2012
Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards Best Beverage Book 2012
James Beard Awards Best Drink Book 2012
André Simon Awards Hall of Fame for Best Wine Book 2012
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best Drinks Book 2012
Wine & Spirits magazine
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