V–A–C Sreda online magazine presents a special New Year’s podcast series dedicated to wine studies produced in collaboration with a participant in the GES-2 House of Culture grant programme.
In this episode, we explore wine as a cultural phenomenon. What do wine studies examine, and why is this field becoming increasingly significant today? Can the history of a drink tell us something about the development of civilization? Where did winemaking originate—and what does Nietzsche have to do with it?
V–A–C Sreda editor Maxim Shibaev considers these and other questions with Danila Ivanov—a sociologist, wine researcher, and author and expert for RBC Wine, Simple Wine News, and Fine & Rare Wine.