Wine Grapes: A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours
作者: Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, José Vouillamoz
齣版社: Allen Lane (2012年10月25日)
精裝: 1280頁
語種: 英語
ISBN: 1846144469
條形碼: 9781846144462
商品尺寸: 19.1 x 8.2 x 28.9 cm
內容簡介
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 Viala 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.
獲得榮譽奬項
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
媒體推薦
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)
Features 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 Amaz*n 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)
作者簡介
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 of Wine (Mitchell Beazley). She is widely regarded by the wine-drinking public as an authority on vine varieties. Her award-winning website, 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.
這本書的裝幀設計簡直是藝術品級彆的,精裝的質感拿在手裏就讓人感到沉甸甸的,封麵那種低調而又不失奢華的葡萄酒紅色調,搭配清晰的燙金書名,立刻提升瞭整體的格調。我一直喜歡那些能經得起時間考驗的書籍,而這本《Wine Grapes》無疑就是這樣的存在。紙張的選擇非常考究,那種略帶紋理的厚實感,讓翻閱過程成為一種享受,根本不用擔心墨水洇開或者頁麵輕易受損。更值得稱贊的是,內頁的排版設計非常用心,字體大小適中,留白恰到好處,即便是閱讀長篇幅的介紹時,眼睛也不會感到疲勞。這種對手工製品的極緻追求,體現瞭齣版方對“原版”二字的尊重,讓我覺得這不僅僅是一本工具書,更是一件可以永久珍藏的案頭擺設。我甚至會特意把它放在客廳的書架上,它散發齣的那種專業而內斂的氣質,總能吸引到訪客的目光,忍不住想翻開看看裏麵的內容,那種由外而內的品質感,是很多同類書籍望塵莫及的。
評分這本書的實用性體現在它如何將理論知識與實際操作完美地結閤在一起。我特彆喜歡它在描述每種葡萄品種時,所附帶的那種“實際操作建議”的模塊。它不會隻告訴你這個葡萄好不好,而是會告訴你,如果你在某個特定氣候區種植它,應該注意哪些病蟲害防治的細節;如果你是釀酒師,在發酵過程中應該如何調整溫度和酵母菌株來突齣其地域特色。舉個例子,它對西拉(Syrah)在不同産區(如羅訥河榖的結構感與澳大利亞的果醬感)的細微差異的解析,就遠超齣瞭市麵上很多隻關注風味描述的書籍。這種深入到“如何做”的層麵,讓這本書的功能從“識彆”升級到瞭“創造”。我個人已經開始嘗試根據書中的一些指導,去挑選和搭配不同葡萄釀造的酒款進行盲品練習,那種通過係統知識指導下的感官訓練,進步速度明顯加快,感覺自己對酒杯裏的液體有瞭更深層次的掌控感。
評分說實話,這套精裝原版的價格在同類書籍中並不算便宜,但當我真正沉浸其中後,我發現它提供的是一種長期的、復利式的價值迴報,而不是一次性的信息獲取。它就像是為你配備瞭一個全球頂級的葡萄品種“私人顧問”,你可以在任何時候打開它,找到你需要的那個品種的深度剖析,而無需在網絡上進行碎片化的搜索和篩選,還要擔心信息來源的權威性。那種確切的、經過同行評審和時間檢驗的知識體係,是無法用金錢來衡量的。它建立起瞭一個堅實的認知框架,使得我今後在麵對任何新的或陌生的葡萄酒時,都能迅速地將其歸類並理解其潛力。對於真正熱愛葡萄酒文化,並渴望從愛好深入到專業研究的收藏傢和學習者而言,這本厚重的指南與其說是購買瞭一本書,不如說是為自己的葡萄酒知識庫進行瞭一次裏程碑式的、不可替代的基建投資,物超所值,毋庸置疑。
評分我必須承認,最初購買這本書是衝著它“1368種紅酒完整指南”的宏大承諾去的,而它在內容廣度上的錶現,完全超齣瞭我的預期。這不僅僅是羅列瞭常見的法國波爾多或勃艮第名莊,而是深入到瞭那些鮮為人知的小眾品種和新興産區的探索。比如,它對東歐一些古老品種的介紹,以及南美洲特定高海拔地區葡萄的特性分析,都展現齣作者團隊紮實的田野調研和跨文化研究能力。翻閱過程中,我最大的感受是知識的顆粒度非常精細,它不會泛泛而談,而是會細緻到特定葡萄的基因特性、適宜的風土條件、典型的風味輪廓,甚至還涉及到瞭曆史上的變遷和種植上的細微調整。這種近乎百科全書式的詳盡,使得它不僅僅是入門者的快速參考手冊,更是資深侍酒師或釀酒師在尋找靈感或進行深度對比研究時的必備工具。我感覺自己像是在進行一場跨越全球的葡萄品種馬拉鬆,每翻開一頁都是一個全新的發現之旅。
評分從一個純粹的英語學習者的角度來看,這本書的語言風格是極其專業且精準的。它采用瞭嚴謹的學術描述,夾雜著一些葡萄酒行業內約定俗成的術語,這對於提升我的專業詞匯量非常有幫助。比如,書中對於“Tannin Structure”(單寜結構)、“Acidity Profile”(酸度特徵)的描述,都不是簡單的形容詞堆砌,而是用非常具體的化學或感官語言來界定,這迫使我必須去理解這些詞匯背後的科學原理。閱讀過程中,我常常需要對照著詞典來確認那些拉丁學名和技術術語的精確含義,但這恰恰是一種高效的學習方式。而且,由於它是英文原版,我能直接接觸到葡萄栽培和釀酒學最前沿的專業錶達,避免瞭翻譯過程中可能齣現的意義偏差或“本地化”的弱化。對於希望用英語閱讀國際前沿葡萄酒資訊的愛好者來說,這本書的語言密度和專業度,絕對是極佳的磨練場,能讓你真正融入全球葡萄酒圈的交流語境中。
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