[uf-discuss] Proposal: wine

[James Jory]

Andy Mabbett wrote:
> In message <455E1F73.5080706 at scrugy.com>, James Jory <james at scrugy.com>
> writes
>
>   
>>>> Yes, I've looked at "species" for this purpose and it certainly
>>>> works
>>>> for parts of the wine industry.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Thank you - but which parts of the wine industry uses grapes and
>>> yeast
>>> which are (or were) not living things?
>>>
>>>       
>> What I was getting at was that the typical wine consumer and the
>> content providers catering to wine consumers are less interested in the
>> scientific classification of a particular grape or yeast and more
>> interested in where to buy wine, who made it, how much it costs, recent
>> reviews, and so on.
>>     
>
> You think wine buyers aren't interested in the variety of grape?
>   
I believe I said scientific classification. Of course wine buyers are 
interested in the grape variety. What they're not interested in is the 
full biological taxonomy of the grape variety which is what you 
initially suggested. They're buying wine and not retaking high school 
biology.