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...Latham is only one of the many connoisseurs on campus who hold tastings to introduce tyros to the world of oenophilia. And this isn’t just a Harvard phenomenon. Wine consumption in America is higher than ever before, according to a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, and the industry’s strength is evident at Harvard, where one wine tasting course counts for credit and, after a two-year hibernation, Harvard Student Agencies is resurrecting its own tasting course...
...Wine tasting can be seen as an utterly pretentious activity, but here it was laid back and comfortable. Graduate students in sweaters and jeans nibbled on slices of baguette, chatting only occasionally about the wine. As a surprise, Latham brought out a 1998 Hospice de Beaune chardonnay to prove that whites could be tasted after reds—or at least this one. The silky-smooth liquid clung to the tongue, and its echoes lingered long after the tasting was over...
...wine lovers don’t have to trek all the way to the observatory to taste good vintages...
...This semester, Tom Conley, Lowell professor of Romance languages and literatures and master of Kirkland House, is teaching a seminar called “Oenography: For a Topology of Wine.” Though not listed as a House seminar or in the Courses of Instruction, the class will count for credit...
...inebriated, but to work,” Conley says, sitting in the pleasantly dim library of the master’s residence, his two large Bernese mountain dogs by his feet. “At the end last year, I gave a blind tasting. They could tell where each wine was from...