Finding Meaning in Wine

A US Blend

Michael Sinowitz

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English

Routledge
01 August 2023

Economics; Agriculture & related industries; Food manufacturing & related industries; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Agricultural science; Viticulture

Series: Routledge Food Studies

This book examines controversies in American wine culture and how those controversies intersect with and illuminate current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation.

With a specific focus on the United States of America, the methods that we use to discuss literature and other art are applied to wine-making and wine culture. The book explores the debates about how to evaluate wine and the problems inherent in numerical scoring as well as evaluative tasting notes, whether winemakers can be artists, the discourse in wine culture involving natural wine and biodynamic farming, as well as how people judge what makes a wine great. These interpretative commitments illuminate an underlying metaphysics and allegiance to a culture of reason or feeling. The discussions engage with a broad range of writers and thinkers, such as Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Louis Menand, Michael Pollan, Greg Garrard, John Guillory, Amitov Ghosh, Pierre Bourdieu, and Barbara Herrnstein-Smith. The book draws upon not only a number of texts produced by wine critics, wine writers, literary critics and theorists but also extensive interviews with wine writers and multiple California winemakers. These interviews contribute to a unique reflection on wine and meaning.

This book will be of great interest to readers looking to learn more about wine from cultural, literary, and philosophical perspectives.

By: Michael Sinowitz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781032505169
ISBN 10: 1032505168
Series: Routledge Food Studies
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Against Tasting: The Problems of Blind Tasting and Interpretation 2. On Balance: Numbers, Words, and Wine on a Page 3. Death of the Winemaker: Are Winemakers Artists? 4. On the Supermarket Pastoral and Natural Wine 5. Postmodern Viticulture 6. The Noble Grapes: The Canon of Grapes and the Literary Canon

Michael Sinowitz is a Professor in the Department of English at DePauw University, USA. His previous publications include Sex, Drugs and Bodies in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin Novels (2014) and essays on Graham Greene, Angela Carter, Thomas Berger, and Elmore Leonard.

Reviews for Finding Meaning in Wine: A US Blend

"""The book, Finding Meaning in Wine by Michael Sinowitz is written from an interesting perspective – interesting in that Mr. Sinowitz is a Professor in the English department at DePauw University in Indiana. He’s a wine aficionado, with an obvious interest in going beyond the basics of what wine is about, and a particular interest in what those of us who write about it have to say, and whether it’s helpful or not."" Rich Cook, winereviewonline.com ""This book is an English Professor’s application of literary analysis to wine... this book is interesting, thoughtful, and stimulating. I highly recommend it... In short, Michael Sinowitz’s approach to understanding wine writing, wine tasting, and the art and culture of wine is unique and helpful to those of us who do the tasting and writing."" Donald Winkler, International Wine Review"