sadly this book is broad in scope and though most will find something of interest in it's content,most will just skim by the lions share of it. much is devoted to subjects that wine drinkers never toss around such as the mores of ancient times ala plato.annotations and sub-notes abound making it appear to be a collection of term papers.
Author(s): Fritz Allhoff, Paul Draper
Series: Philosophy for Everyone
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 322
List of Figures......Page 8
Foreword Paul Draper......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Planting the Vines An Introduction Fritz Allhoff......Page 15
I The Art & Culture of Wine......Page 27
1 Wine in Ancient Greece Some Platonist Ponderings Harold Tarrant......Page 29
2 On and Off the Wagon Wine and the American Character Jonathon Alsop......Page 44
3 Muse in a Stem Glass Art, Wine, and Philosophy Kirsten Ditterich-Shilakes......Page 58
4 In Vino Sanitas Frederick Adolf Paola......Page 77
II Tasting & Talking about Wine......Page 93
5 Mmmm . . . not Aha! Imaginative vs. Analytical Experiences of Wines John Dilworth......Page 95
6 Talk about Wine? Kent Bach......Page 109
7 Winespeak or Critical Communication? Why People Talk About Wine Keith Lehrer and Adrienne Lehrer......Page 125
III Wine & Its Critics......Page 137
8 What the Wine Critic Tells Us John W. Bender......Page 139
9 Experiencing Wine Why Critics Mess Up (Some of the Time) Jamie Goode......Page 151
IV The Beauty of Wine......Page 169
10 You’ll Never Drink Alone Wine Tasting and Aesthetic Practice Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleås......Page 171
11 Who Cares If You Like It, This Is a Good Wine Regardless George Gale......Page 186
12 Listening to the Wine Consumer The Art of Drinking Steve Charters......Page 200
V Wine & Metaphysics......Page 217
13 Is There Coffee or Blackberry in My Wine? Kevin W. Sweeney......Page 219
14 The Soul of Wine Digging for Meaning Randall Grahm......Page 233
15 The Notion of Terroir Matt Kramer......Page 239
VI The Politics & Economics of Wine......Page 249
16 Wine-Tasting Epiphany An Analysis of the 1976 California vs. France Tasting Orley Ashenfelter, Richard E. Quandt, and George M. Taber......Page 251
17 The Old World and the New Worlds Apart? Warren Winiarski......Page 262
18 Taste How Expensive This Is A Problem of Wine and Rationality Justin Weinberg......Page 271
19 Shipping across State Lines Wine and the Law Drew Massey......Page 289
Notes on Contributors......Page 302
Index......Page 309
