Cain Todd is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lancaster. He has written on various issues in aesthetics and value theory and he honed his wine tasting skills whilst representing the University of Cambridge on the blind wine tasting varsity team as a graduate student.
Cain Todd's work is a pioneering study of the concept of taste as applied to wine, and a serious attempt to make sense of one of the most peculiar forms of criticism currently exercised. It is a skilful bid to rescue wine from the gluttons and to save it for the aesthetes, and all true lovers of wine will be greatly stimulated by its arguments and examples. - Roger Scruton