Planting the vines: an introduction / Fritz Allhoff -- The art & culture of wine. Wine in ancient Greece: some Platonist ponderings / Harold Tarrant -- On and off the wagon: wine and the American character / Jonathon Alsop -- Muse in a stem glass: art, wine, and philosophy / Kirsten Ditterich-Shilakes -- In vino sanitas / Frederick Adolf Paola -- Tasting & talking about wine. Mmmm... not aha!: imaginative versus analytical experiences of wines / John Dilworth -- Talk about wine? / Kent Bach -- Winespeak or critical communication?: Why People Talk About Wine / Keith Lehrer and Adrienne Lehrer -- Wine & its critics. What the wine critic tells us / John W. Bender -- Experiencing wine: why critics mess up (some of the time) / Jamie Goode -- The beauty of wine. You'll never drink alone: wine tasting and aesthetic practice / Douglas Burnham and Ole Martin Skilleås -- Who cares if you like it, this is a good wine regardless / George Gale -- Listening to the wine consumer: the art of drinking / Steve Charters -- Wine and metaphysics. Is there coffee or blackberry in my wine? / Kevin W. Sweeney -- The soul of wine: digging for meaning / Randall Graham -- The notion of terroir / Matt Kramer -- The politics & economics of wine. Wine tasting epiphany: an analysis of the 1976 California vs. France tasting / Orley Ashenfelter, Richard E. Quandt, and George M. Taber -- The old world and the new: worlds apart? / Warren Winiarski -- Taste how expensive this is: a problem of wine and rationality / Justin Weinberg -- Shipping across state lines: wine and the law / Drew Massey