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Wine, Culture and Power

Original analysis on French wine, professional culture, and the hidden codes of power.
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The Epistemology of a Great Bottle

The 1855 Classification was not a quality ranking — it was a power move. What truly makes a wine great? A philosophical analysis of how wine value is built, legitimised, and contested.

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