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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often wealth. Bottles sell for half a million dollars. Point systems tell us which wines are considered the best. Wine professionals give us the language to describe what we taste.
Agricultural product and cultural commodity, drink of ritual and drink of addiction, purveyor of pleasure, pain, and memory - wine has never been contained in a single glass. Drawing from science, religion, literature, and memoir, Wine meditates on the power structures bound up with making and drinking this ancient, intoxicating beverage.
From the Preface:"This wine,” the historian told me, a glass raised to his
nose, “smells like yellow flowers that bloomed in my
village when I was a child.”I was having lunch with Joan Gómez Pallarès, a classicist
and a wine columnist for Spain’s biggest newspaper, at
a cavernous bar near the port of Tarragona, a city in the
country’s northeast. I’d hoped he, a critic renowned for his
precise writing, could teach me to be more attentive when
I tasted wine. New to both the country and the drink,
I struggled to find words to describe the world around
me—including what was in my glass. When I sniffed the
honey colored liquid Pallarès had ordered for us, my mind
went blank. I could detect something, but I didn’t have the
language to articulate what I was smelling.
My perspective changed when I moved to Spain...Working with vines that first year in Spain,I began to live in both structural and ecological time.My life revolved around a vineyard’s rhythms...Long-awaited was vendimia—the harvest.