One winemaking family's pursuit of an intoxicating, doomed grape
by
Andrew Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The most exquisite fruit-bearing plant that civilization has ever known — vitis vinifera, the grapevine that gives us wine — has been on life support for 150 years. Menaced by an unstoppable root-killing parasite named phylloxera, the chardonnays and pinot noirs and rieslings of the world survive...