“Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically” MadeWineMade ItArtifacts Author:Tim Crane
“The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it” ValuesUnderstoodWineAestheticTasting Author:Tim Crane
“Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content” ArtMessagesIntellectualWineCognitive Author:Tim Crane
“I do think that if you are trying to think empirically about the relationship between conscious experience and the underlying physical reality, wine provides an excellent practical example. Winemakers manipulate the chemicals they are dealing with in a way that is very sensitive to the kinds of effects it will have on the subjective experience of tasters - this is not an accident.” ThinkingTryingKindRealityConsciousWineExcellentSensitiveManipulate Author:Tim Crane