Finding Meaning in Wine

- examines the various narratives of wine and how it intersects with and illuminates current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation

- presents an in-depth exploration of wine culture and wine production in the USA

- engages with a broad range of writers and thinkers including Roland Barthes, M. H. Abrams, Susan Sontag, Louis Menand, Michael Pollan, Greg Garrard, John Guillory, Amitov Ghosh, Pierre Bordieu, and Barbara Hernstein-Smith

- draws upon extensive interviews conducted by the author with wine maker, writers and critics

- will be of great interest to readers looking to learn more about wine from cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives