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