Tasting the Past

"A vintner’s blend of science, history, travel, and tantalizing drink recommendations." --Amy Stewart, author of  The Drunken Botanist In search of a mysterious wine he once tasted in a hotel room minibar, journalist Kevin Begos travels along the original wine routes—from the Caucasus Mountains, where wine grapes were first domesticated eight thousand years ago, crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, and then America—and unearths a whole world of