The American physiologist, oenologist, publicist and university lecturer Maynard A. Amerine (1911-1998) was appointed to the viticulture department at the University of California in 1935, which was revived after Prohibition in the USA (1920-1933). He would later head it from 1957 to 1962. Amerine began his work by analysing numerous European (of which he imported hundreds from Spain, Italy, France and Greece ) and American grape varieties and compiled an extensive herbarium, which was completed after him by Dr Harold P. Olmo.

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