Is the taste of wine purely subjective? Why should we value the experience of drinking wine? Barry Smith, editor of a new book on the Philosophy of Wine, Questions of Taste (Signal Books, Oxford, July 2007), explores these and related questions in this interview.
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The U.S. edition of the book Questions of Taste is published by OUP and has a different cover. See cover of the U.S. edition.
Read Nigel Warburton's review of Questions of Taste on his weblog www.virtualphilosopher.org and also a review in The New York Times.
You can listen to Barry talking about Relativism on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time here. See
Just wanted you to know I enjoyed this and other podcasts but this one especially. And the one on architecture.
Posted by: Listener | July 07, 2007 at 08:29 PM
Its true that every person is unique, and thus there is subjectivity is in everything we do. When it comes to wine even our language for defining its character limits us from truly sharing our experience.
Posted by: vino | December 21, 2010 at 11:57 PM