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Tasting the Past audiobook

  • By: Kevin Begos
  • Category: Cooking, General
  • Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Highbridge Company
  • Publish date: June 12, 2018
  • Language: English
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Tasting the Past Audiobook Summary

The characters in Tasting the Past include a young Swiss scientist who set out to decode the DNA of every single wine grape in the world; Middle Eastern researchers who seek to discover the wines that King David drank; and a University of Pennsylvania academic who has spent decades analyzing wine remains. The science illuminates wine in ways no critic can, and demolishes some of the most sacred dogmas of the industry: well-known French grapes aren’t especially noble.
We travel with Begos along the original wine routes-starting in the Caucasus Mountains, where wine was domesticated eight thousand years ago, down to Israel and across the Mediterranean to Greece, Italy, and France, and finally to America, where California and Vermont vineyards are creating new wines by letting native and European grapes breed together. It’s a melting pot of new tastes and possibilities. As he samples these wines, Begos offers listeners tasting suggestions that go far beyond the endless bottles of Chardonnay and Merlot found in most stores and restaurants.
From this combination of journalism, history, science, and adventure travel, readers will learn the multicultural roots of wine while enjoying a full-bodied story with a rich, nutty bouquet and plenty of subtle nuances that will linger.

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About the Author(s) of Tasting the Past

Kevin Begos is the author of Tasting the Past

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Subjects

The publisher of the Tasting the Past is Highbridge Company. includes the following subjects: Jerusalem, Kevin Begos, wine routes, Cooking, General, Cooking, History, Cooking, Beverages, Wine & Spirits, Cooking, Beverages, General, History, General, History, World, Science, General, Science, Life Sciences, Horticulture, Science, Life Sciences, General The BISAC Subject Code is Cooking, General

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The publisher of the Tasting the Past is Highbridge Company. The imprint is Highbridge Company. It is supplied by Highbridge Company. The ISBN-13 is 9781684411818.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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