The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History

How have people talked about the organoleptic characteristics of wines? How and why have descriptive and evaluative vocabularies changed over time? The essay shows that these vocabularies have shifted from the spare to the elaborate, from medical implications to aesthetic analyses, from a leading co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steven Shapin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2012-10-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1395