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2) The grape
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Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life cycle of grapes from the growth of the vine from tiny grape seeds to the harvest of the ripe grapes in fall.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A child wonders where jelly comes from and learns about the jobs of a grape farmer and workers in a jelly factory. This illustrated narrative nonfiction book includes a map of where Concord grapes are grown, glossary, and further resources"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of wine, grape varieties, wine-making techniques, vintages, and more.
"Comprehensive, authoritative, entertaining, and endlessly fascinating, 'The Wine Bible' is a lively tour from an expert teacher, grounding you deeply in all the fundamentals -- vineyards and grapes, climate and soil -- while layering on passionate asides, tips, anecdotes, definitions, illustrations, maps, labels, and more than 400 full-color photographs....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It's New Year's Eve in Spain, and Rafa is excited to stay up for the first time ever to celebrate with his familia at the plaza. There'll be fireworks and música and . . . grapes? Rafa finds out that he needs to eat a small grape with each of the twelve midnight chimes to bring luck in the New Year. Can he do it? Will he even make it to midnight? Tracey Kyle's read-aloud, rhyming text is sprinkled with words in Spanish, while Marina Astudillo's...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world--from altesse to zierfandler--but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss. Stemming from his own growing obsession, Wilson moves far beyond the "noble grapes," hunting down obscure and underappreciated wines from Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, France,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Maximilian Potter went to Burgundy to report for Vanity Fair on a crime that could have destroyed the Domaine de la Romanée Conti-the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world-he soon found a story that was much larger, and more thrilling, than he had originally imagined. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the DRC, received an anonymous note threatening the destruction...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Terroir connotes a sense of place that imparts a distinctive character to wine. A central component of terroir is the soil and its immediate surroundings. Thus, an understanding of the basic properties of soils and how they function as a "living skin" on the earth's surface is of fundamental importance to grape growers and wine makers. Stripped of scientific jargon, Understanding Vineyard Soils explains to a wide audience how soils form, why they...
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