Cover; Contents; Prologue; Part I Wine, Mind and Soul; 1 Drinking Antiquity; 2 The God of Wine; 3 The Happiest of Happy Accidents; 4 What's in a Number; 5 The Life of the Vine; 6 In Vino in Memoriam; 7 The Nature of Terroir; 8 What You Won't See on the Label; 9 A Flight of Wines; 10 An Unexamined Life, an Undrunk Wine; Part II The Language of Wine; 11 Turning Wine into Words; 12 Flavors Weird and Wonderful; 13 ''Bottled Poetry''; 14 Why Wine Appreciation?; 15 The Other Side of Appreciation; 16 For Better or for Worse; 17 The Geometry of Wine; 18 Is It a Boy or a Girl?; 19 The Fifth Dimension