Finding Meaning in Wine

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.

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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.

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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