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