"Bon Vin" or (Good Wine): behind its cheerful surface, this Épinal print reveals the pleasures, excesses and social codes of working-class France in the 1800s.

Is your taste in wine really yours? From Bourdieu to Robert Parker and the 1855 Classification: how taste makes a wine's value, and value remakes taste.

How did wine become a status symbol? From the 1855 classification to Bourdieu’s cultural capital, how reputation turned a bottle into a social signal.