What is oenology? We start the book with a chapter defining the basic concepts of this science, placing it in a historical context and tracking its evolution until the present day. As a starting point, we reveal the leading lights of the scientific community and the other individuals – associated with Bullipedia – that have inspired us with the rigour of their research and guided us in the writing of this volume.<\/p>\n
We also learn how the different actors in the world of oenology carry out this activity, whilst reflecting upon the words of David Seijas, a B<\/em>ulliniano<\/em> sommelier: \u00abMore and more, sommeliers are oenologists, and vice versa\u00bb.<\/p>\n What factors in the winery make one wine different from another? Or more particularly, why are there better and worse wines? We take a holistic approach to examine winemaking and oenology. Looking at it from a scientific viewpoint, with a contribution from Eric Asimov, and from other perspectives, such as a mathematical one (winemakers normally have their accounting book near to hand), a philosophical one (do platonic and aristotelian wines exist?) and a linguistic one. And above all, examining the subject from an artistic perspective, deliberating if wine can be a work of art and whether the winemaker is an artist with the capacity to innovate. Read the chapter to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is oenology? We start the book with a chapter defining the basic concepts of this science, placing it in a historical context and tracking its evolution until the present day. As a starting point, we reveal the leading lights of the scientific community and the other individuals – associated with Bullipedia – that have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[709,710,635,636,711,637,712,638,667,713,714,715,640,716,643,717,718,719,720,721],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodega-en","tag-bodegas-en","tag-book-en","tag-bullipedia-en","tag-david-seijas-en","tag-el-bulli-en","tag-elaboracion-vino-en","tag-elbulli-en","tag-elbullifoundation-en","tag-enologia-en","tag-enologo-en","tag-fermentacion-en","tag-ferran-adria-en","tag-ferran-centelles-en","tag-libro-en","tag-sapiens-del-vino-en","tag-sumiller-en","tag-vinificacion-en","tag-vino-en","tag-wine-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n