Reviews for Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking

The average rating for Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-22 00:00:00 William Sharp This is a collection of 19 essays written by philosophers, wine writers, and wine makers on 6 different themes in wine: the art and culture of wine, tasting and talking about wine, wine and its critics, the beauty of wine, wine and metaphysics, and the politics and economics of wine. It was much more philosophical than I had imagined it would be and a portion of it was over my head unfortunately. However, I really enjoyed the sections I understood and will try this book again down the road. I especially enjoyed the essays by Jamie Goode, Justin Weinberg and Matt Kramer. Randall Graham and Warren Winiarski's were also good. After reading this book I am apt to think everything having to do with wine tasting, analysis and speaking about wine is a bunch of BS, but then I am quickly reminded of how certain people can identify wines when tasting them blindly and then I am convinced that wine tasting,analysis and communicating about wine cannot be BS if this can be done.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-04 00:00:00 Kenneth Landsbaum Note the book description.