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Description
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.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents
1. Winter
2. Spring
3. Summer
4. Fall
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Works Consulted
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
Product details

Published | Jun 01 2023 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 160 |
ISBN | 9781501383618 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Dimensions | 6 x 5 inches |
Series | Object Lessons |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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A beautifully written, soulful narrative that goes straight into the heart and soul of the complexities, joys, and wisdom of wine.
Alice Feiring, author of To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
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Meg Bernhard's Wine is a beautiful gem of a book, thankfully free of what we find in so much wine writing. This wine book is anything but typical. Bernhard covers a lot of ground in a short number of pages with her unique mix of memoir, travel writing, natural history, sensory science, and reporting on the social issues surrounding wine. But the beating heart of this book is Bernhard's experiences working at Spanish wineries and in the vineyards of Castilla-La Mancha and Catalonia, which she memorably brings to life.
Jason Wilson, author of Godforsaken Grapes and creator of the newsletter “Everyday Drinking”

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