Table of Contents
List of Figures viii
Foreword by Paul Draper ix
Acknowledgments xi
Planting the Vines: An Introduction 1 Fritz Allhoff
I The Art & Culture of Wine 13
1 Wine in Ancient Greece: Some Platonist Ponderings 15 Harold Tarrant
2 On and Off the Wagon: Wine and the American Character 30 Jonathon Alsop
3 Muse in a Stem Glass: Art, Wine, and Philosophy 44 Kirsten Ditterich-Shilakes
4 In Vino Sanitas 63 Frederick Adolf Paola
II Tasting & Talking about Wine 79
5 Mmmm . . . not Aha! Imaginative vs. Analytical Experiences of Wines 81 John Dilworth
6 Talk about Wine? 95 Kent Bach
7 Winespeak or Critical Communication? Why People Talk about Wine 111 Keith Lehrer and Adrienne Lehrer
III Wine & Its Critics 123
8 What the Wine Critic Tells Us 125 John W. Bender
9 Experiencing Wine: Why Critics Mess Up (Some of the Time) 137 Jamie Goode
IV The Beauty of Wine 155
10 You’ll Never Drink Alone: Wine Tasting and Aesthetic Practice 157 Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleås
11 Who Cares If You Like It, This Is a Good Wine Regardless 172 George Gale
12 Listening to the Wine Consumer: The Art of Drinking 186 Steve Charters
V Wine & Metaphysics 203
13 Is There Coffee or Blackberry in My Wine? 205 Kevin W. Sweeney
14 The Soul of Wine: Digging for Meaning 219 Randall Grahm
15 The Notion of Terroir 225 Matt Kramer
VI The Politics & Economics of Wine 235
16 Wine-Tasting Epiphany: An Analysis of the 1976 California vs. France Tasting 237 Orley Ashenfelter, Richard E. Quandt, and George M. Taber
17 The Old World and the New: Worlds Apart? 248 Warren Winiarski
18 Taste How Expensive This Is: A Problem of Wine and Rationality 257 Justin Weinberg
19 Shipping across State Lines: Wine and the Law 275 Drew Massey
Notes on Contributors 288
Index 295