Questions of taste : the philosophy of wine / edited by Barry C. Smith ; with a foreword by Jancis Robinson.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.Description: xvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780195331462
- 019533146X
- TP548.5.A5 Q47 2007
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First published: Oxford : Signal Books, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The philosophy of wine / Roger Scruton -- Knowledge, wine and taste: what good is knowledge (in enjoying wine?) / Kent Bach -- The objectivity of tastes and tasting / Barry C. Smith -- Wine and the brain / Jamie Goode -- The power of tastes: reconciling science and subjectivity / Ophelia Deroy -- Can wines be brawny?: reflections on wine vocabulary / Adrienne Lehrer -- Wine as an aesthetic object / Tim Crane -- One [sic] the evaluation of wine quality / Steve Charters -- Wine epistemology: the role of reputational and ranking systems in the world of wine / Gloria Origgi -- The art and craft of wine / Andrew Jefford and Paul Draper.
Essays illuminating the philosophical issues surrounding our love of wine.