I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide To Wine

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Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine & serious thought with a heady mix of humour & philosophy The ancients had a solution to the alcohol problem which was to wrap the drink in religious rituals to treat it as the incarnation of a god & to marginalize disruptive behaviour as the god&s doing not the worshipper&s Gradually under the discipline of ritual prayer & theology wine was tamed from its orgiastic origins to become a solemn libation to the Olympians & then the Christian Eucharist
- that brief encounter with salvation which has reconciliation as its goal We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health & also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin Whether or not good for the body Scrtuton argues wine drunk in the right frame of mind is definitely good for the soul & there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy By thinking with wine you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts In vino veritas