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“Learning is like grape must, which turns sour unless entered into a sound vessel.”

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Author:Neel Burton

“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man’s self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty—and the product of this separation, the fruit and flower of this exile, is, of course, culture. ‘God,’ said the writer Victor Hugo, ‘made only water, but man made wine.”

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Book:For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?

Source: For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?

“In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.”

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Author:Neel Burton

“Next time you drink a glass of champagne, remember that it is essentially a faulty wine from an unpromising place, made great by the genius of man.”

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Book:The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting

Source: The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting

“Drinking wine is like using magic: there's always a price to pay.”

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Book:The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting

Source: The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting

“In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other potentially complex beverages such as tea, coffee, and spirits, and, by extension, the flavours in food, the scents in the air, and the play of light in the world. For life is consciousness, and consciousness is life.”

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Book:The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting

Source: The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting

“It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.”

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Author:Neel Burton

“Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”

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Book:The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition

Source: The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition

“While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”

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