Tasting the Past – book review
Monday 24 December 2018
Tasting the Past
The science of flavor and the search for the origins of wine
Kevin Begos
Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN 9781616205775
$27, £21
This must be the only wine book in the world that starts with a bottle of wine from a hotel mini-bar. Even more singular is that the hotel is in Amman, Jordan.
It was a little bottle of red wine, produced by Cremisan Cellars in Bethlehem. Like most mini-bar wine, it should have tasted pretty awful, neutral at best. It surprised Kevin Begos by being spicy, different, balanced, even possibly with a...
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