- Antonioni, Michelangelo, 95
- Aristotle, 54
- Atheneus, 181
- Austin, John L., 150
- authenticity, 61–63, 65–67, 80
- Bachelard, Gaston, 45, 102, 151
- Barthes, Roland, 78
- Baudelaire, Charles, 31, 63, 177
- Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 50
- Berenson, Bernard, 56
- Beuys, Joseph, 58
- Borges, Jorges Luis, 80–81
- Buddhism, 73, 132
- Cavandoli, Osvaldo, 27
- Châtelet, Gilles, 67
- communication: and community, 69–71, 137–38, 158–62; and imagination, 76–77; and terroir, 169–71; world of wine, 108–9
- competency: competence, 117–18; 120–27; competition, 135–37; expertise, 16, 37–38, 59, 109–10; expertise vs experience, 75–79; judgment, 132–33
- correspondence, 27–28, 34–35, 51–52, 58, 89–92, 100, 115, 137–38, 147–50, 164–67, 169–75
- Daoism, 173
- Davis, Miles, 135
- Derrida, Jacques, 11, 49, 54, 64
- Descartes, René, 18
- Dewey, John, 145, 183
- Didi-Huberman, Georges, 73
- Duchamp, Marcel, 51
- education: conventional scholastic, 136; élevage, 27; imposition vs exposition, 146–47, 157–58, 161
- Einstein, Albert, 153, 156
- Erasmus, 181
- expertise. See competence
- Fernández, Macedonio, 80
- Feyerabend, Paul, 112
- food: diet, 33–34; dietetic science, 35–36; and haptic, 43, 78–79; Hippocratic/Galenic diet, 35; philosophy of vs philosophy with food/wine, 9–10, 49, 97–98; food-pairing, 57, 141–43
- Franklin, Benjamin, 177
- Galilei, Galileo, 18
- Gargani, Aldo, 109, 112
- Georgia, 96–102, 118–20, 181
- Gibson, James, J., 46
- Greimas, Algirdas, 81
- Guevara “Che,” Ernesto, 166
- Hamsun, Knut, 60
- haptic: vs optic, 4, 54, 65, 70–71; perception, 4–5, 7, 45–51, 55–56, 58, 63, 92, 96, 101, 103, 120; taste, 43–44, 52, 61–62, 83, 115–16, 144–45; vs touch, 42–43
- Heraclitus, 124
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 54
- Hillman, James, 73, 88
- Hippocrates, 35
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 150
- Horace, 181
- Ingold, Tim, 7, 132, 166
- James, Henry, 117
- Jodorowsky, Alejandro, 89
- Joly, Nicolas, 30, 60
- Joseph, Beuys, 58
- Jullien, François, 52, 110, 115, 132
- Kant, Immanuel, 54, 132
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 91
- Kubrick, Stanley, 102
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 50
- Locke, John, 18
- Maynard, Amerine, 40
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 92, 144
- meshwork, 60, 92, 110, 145, 171, 177
- Miles, Davis, 135
- Moio, Luigi, 167
- Montaigne, Michel de, 121
- Nancy, Jean-Luc, 43, 50
- Noble, Anne, 40, 99, 165
- Nothomb, Amélie, 178
- Ocampo, Silvina, 80
- oenology, 26, 40–41, 72, 104–5, 112, 126, 167–68
- Parker, Robert, 40, 133
- Penone, Giuseppe, 28, 73, 145
- Persello, Ramon, 168
- Peynaud, Émile, 26, 72
- Riegl, Alois, 43
- Rigaux, Jacky, 80
- Robinot, Jean-Pierre, 60
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 153
- Sangiorgi, Sandro, 147
- Satie, Erik, 123
- Schoonmaker, Frank, 40
- Schütz, Alfred, 108
- Serres, Michel, 92, 112, 132
- Shapin, Steven, 99
- Shusterman, Richard, 52
- Soldati, Mario, 23, 81, 83
- task: attention, 23, 52, 88, 102–6; choice vs care, 173; intention, 60, 103; nurturing, 113
- Terzani, Tiziano, 117
- time: atmosphere, 25, 29, 40,45–46, 55, 67, 98–100, 102, 123, 142, 144, 160, 169, 181–82; chronological, 14, 25; event, 5–6, 10–11, 19, 60, 82, 146; measured vs inhabited, 151, 174, 178; as a task, 9, 48, 162; weather, 166, 171
- Torday, Paul, 179
- touch. See haptic, vs touch
- Van Gogh, Vincent, 161
- Veronelli, Luigi, 83, 105
- vintage, 29, 30, 105, 159, 170–71
- Wenders, Wim, 149
- wisdom: of drinking, 178, 181; of taste, 62, 147
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 16, 39, 51, 148, 150
- Yeats, William Butler, 158
- Žižek, Slavoj, 149