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