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'The Drink Has Called It Into Being': A Year In A Wine Column, Moya Costello
'The Drink Has Called It Into Being': A Year In A Wine Column, Moya Costello
Dr Moya Costello
For a year, between 2009 and 2010, I wrote a wine-review column in a free regional newspaper as a passionate amateur. I conceive of the wine reviews as creative nonfiction and of myself as a role model for my students who have the option of writing on food. Genre has its courtiers and jesters and, in itself, it is bound for change as any other cultural phenomena. I think of my wine-writing practice as destablising that specific genre, attempting a transformation of it into an expanded field, via the efficacy of writing and wine as art. It is contentious to …