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'Complete guide' to grape varieties set for release
17 August 2012  by Gabriel Savage, www.thedrinksbusiness.com
Which six grape varieties can trace their origin to China? How is the grape variety Galeguinho more commonly known? To which 14 varieties can most of the grapes we know today trace their ancestry?
A new book, Wine Grapes, provides the answers to these questions and more in what its publisher, Allen Lane, claims is “the most complete guide to vine varieties and their wines ever.”

Compiled by wine writers Jancis Robinson MW and Julia Harding MW, together with grape geneticist Dr José Vouillamoz, this guide to 1,368 vine varieties is over 1 000 pages long, weighs three kilograms and has an RRP of £120.

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en primeur offer Angela Lloyd - 17 August 2012
Amazon offer the book en primeur for £78. I'm sure it'll be a must have for anyone interestd in wine, let alone involved with it.


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