{"id":4,"date":"2021-01-07T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/wintertastingbycorinne\/?p=4"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:43:40","slug":"1-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/wintertastingbycorinne\/2021\/01\/07\/1-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Wine (weeks 1-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

#1a: Film Series: Program Questions in Scenes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve chosen minutes 14:30 to 16 (1-3 minutes) from the film Red Obsession<\/a>, which I\u2019m titling \u201chype and hope\u201d in order to explore the program question: \u201cWhy are matters of taste both objective and subjective?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clip begins as Sean Guillame-Prats explains to us the marketing behind an En Primeur experience, where people taste wine before it\u2019s bottled. He says, \u201cyou are selling a piece of excitement, of anticipation, of magic, and there must be some hype and hope around this…that\u2019s why Bordeau is so famous around the world, because Bordeau is very good at creating that excitement.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next the filmmakers play tense music, showing us people milling about eager to try the year\u2019s wine. The people attending the event have high expectations. A man tells us, he wonders whether they\u2019ll deliver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then we get a peek into the wine traders\u2019 perspective. The narrator informs us that the price of fine wine has skyrocketed, and the wines become \u201ctoo valuable to drink\u201d. Just like a highly esteemed piece of fine art, no one can experience these wines objectively. Desire heightens our appreciation, or in some cases our disappointment in the subject. Whether you objectively taste a special flavor or not, your satisfaction and the experience itself is informed by your expectations, by the \u201chype and hope\u201d surrounding it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#1b: (un)Natural Histories<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Takeaways from Wine and Place: A Terroir Reader by Tim Patterson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe universal premise underlying the concept of terroir\u2014the simple truism we\u2019ve already described\u2014is that vineyard differences can affect the flavour of wine. Take a single grape variety and plant it in three different spots. Handle the harvested grapes in the same way, and the wines will taste different.\u201d<\/em><\/p>page 51, Wine and place<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

History And Definitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The factors of terroir, Wine and Place<\/em>, figure 2.2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n