Finding Meaning in Wine: Q+A with author Michael Sinowitz
Join us for a special event with Michael Sinowitz, author of Finding Meaning in Wine: A US Blend. Yeah! Winemaker Hardy Wallace will interview Michael about the book followed by the chance to purchase the book after the discussion. Your ticket price includes one glass of wine. Additional glasses, to-go bottles and merch will also be available to purchase.
About Finding Meaning in Wine: A US Blend:
The book explores the debates about how to evaluate wine and the problems inherent in numerical scoring as well as evaluative tasting notes, whether winemakers can be artists, the discourse in wine culture involving natural wine and biodynamic farming, as well as how people judge what makes a wine great. These interpretative commitments illuminate an underlying metaphysics and allegiance to a culture of reason or feeling. The discussions engage with a broad range of writers and thinkers, such as Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Louis Menand, Michael Pollan, Greg Garrard, John Guillory, Amitov Ghosh, Pierre Bourdieu, and Barbara Herrnstein-Smith.
The book draws upon not only a number of texts produced by wine critics, wine writers, literary critics and theorists but also extensive interviews with multiple California winemakers, such as Tegan Passalaqua, Matthew Rorick, Hardy Wallace, Rajat Parr, Nathan Roberts and Duncan Meyers. These interviews contribute to a unique reflection on wine and meaning. “This book will be of great interest to readers looking to learn more about wine from cultural, literary, and philosophical perspectives,” Sinowitz explains.
Visit www.michaelsinowitz.com for more information about the author.
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