The author of this book provides an authoritative, scientific and comprehensive guide to understanding grapevines. Their anatomy and physiology are rigorously covered within a global context.

I found the book particularly useful when considering practical problems, for example, frost damage, from a theoretical perspective. It is equally useful when considering mineral uptake and applications, respiration, water use, bud break (and its control) and the plethora of minutiae that concern both the practical grower and the theoretical researcher. The author improves on older books that have stood the test of time (for example, those of Pierre Galet, the French ampelographer), and moves the subject on to a new level of understanding.

I recommend it unreservedly.