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Book Review: The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass, by Jamie Goode |
| Published: November 4, 2007, 1:11 am |
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Review by Tim Patterson. Jaime Goode is one of the best popular science writers in the English language, and fortunately for us, his subject is wine, not cosmology or tropical diseases. Trained in biology and certified as a Master of Wine, his Wine Anorak website (and accompanying blog) is a major presence in internet wine and the original source for many of the ideas explored in this fascinating, mind-opening book. The Science of Wine isn't a textbook on grape growing or winemaking, though it covers a lot of that ground. Its chapters are focused on key concepts and controversies in the serious wine world: buzzwords (such as terroir), cutting-edge concepts (micro-oxygenation), and issues for consumers (wine and health). It's a wide-ranging list of topics that should have something for everyone: deficit irrigation, climate change, Brettanomyces, alcohol reduction, screwcaps, how the brain makes sense of flavor, and a dozen others. Goode manages to construct engaging [ Full article ] |
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