The Tim Atkin Cork Talk Podcast
Aug 7, 2026 · 48 min · 11 segments
José Vouillamoz is a botanist, ampelographer and grape geneticist who has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the past, present and future of wine. Co-author of the monumental…
José VouillamozGuest
Tim AtkinHost
I read 10,000 somewhere, but I think that may include table grapes and things like that.
I mean, your amazing book, which you- people, if you haven't got it, it's one of the greatest wine books ever written, called Wine Grapes-
Um, did you leave any out deliberately? Any that you thought, "Oh, damn, we should have put that in?" [laughs]
No. Um, our policy back then was to include every single grape variety that was used to make wine available on the market.
So we had a long list of varieties that did exist, uh, kept in grape collections, but they are not used for commercial wine production-
Uh, I remember after the publication, we, we opened, um, a, um, contest to people-
... who would find a grape that was available and we missed, and, and 40 people, um, were winning, and I have offered a bottle of Swiss wine to each one of them.
And, and sometimes it wa- it was a grape variety I don't even remember the name.
I read 10,000 somewhere, but I think that may include table grapes and things like that.
I mean, your amazing book, which you- people, if you haven't got it, it's one of the greatest wine books ever written, called Wine Grapes-
Um, did you leave any out deliberately? Any that you thought, "Oh, damn, we should have put that in?" [laughs]
No. Um, our policy back then was to include every single grape variety that was used to make wine available on the market.
So we had a long list of varieties that did exist, uh, kept in grape collections, but they are not used for commercial wine production-
Uh, I remember after the publication, we, we opened, um, a, um, contest to people-
... who would find a grape that was available and we missed, and, and 40 people, um, were winning, and I have offered a bottle of Swiss wine to each one of them.
And, and sometimes it wa- it was a grape variety I don't even remember the name.
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