Philosophize while drinking a glass of wine. This is the niche that Brice de Beaudrap, philosophy teacher with VinoPhiloa novel concept for businesses and individuals.
New marriage of wine and philosophy
We know the food-wine pairings, the wine and music associations, VinoPhilo promises a completely different marriage, between wine and philosophy. However, this is not the first time that wine has been invited to the table of philosophers, “this is the case of Plato’s Banquet for example, where the guests spend the night drinking wine and philosophizingpoints out Brice de Beaudrap. The word philosophy, from the Latin philosophy means “the love of wisdom”, derived from undermine, in the sense of “having taste”. “Thus, knowing how to taste is already philosophizinghe remarks. It was also during a meal that this idea came to him, while he was sharing a glass with his brother, himself trained in oenology. The two brothers, in the middle of a philosophical debate, naturally draw a parallel between their ideas and the present beverage they share. “This is how Vinophilo was born“recalls Brice de Beaudrap.
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Today, when Brice de Beaudrap leads these conferences, he makes the analogy between a philosophical concept and wine tasting, but he also exploits the vinification and the history of the estate, of its terroir. “If a white wine, straight and dry but long in the mouth embodies the Kantian perception of reality, a wine with a floral bouquet that fades in the mouth brings you all the feelings to understand skepticism.he illustrates, as for yeasts, they are to wine what speech is to thought, they reveal what was hidden by highlighting certain aromas“.
The speaker regularly speaks to companies and to address the idea of entrepreneurship, he chooses Bollinger’s Special Cuvée champagne. “Champagne represents effervescence, but it must be opened at the right time, just like a project you are undertaking. This cuvée presents the fruit in all its states, still raw and fresh like a nascent idea, but also ripe, even stewed like the fruit of labor that we can finally savor. Composed mostly of reserve wines, some of which are kept in magnums for 15 years, it embodies patience and questions purpose. It’s Aristotle in human action“.
“vehicle of spirituality”
If we already know that it makes it possible to loosen the tongues, with VinoPhilo the wine could well untie the thought. For Brice de Beaudrap, “in addition to opening up to exchange, it is a wonderful vector of spirituality” and “associating wine with a concept, when our senses are awake, gives rise to perfect complementarity“. In a way, wine makes the intangible concrete. It thus allows philosophical thought to come to life by giving it color, aromas, flavor.
A philosopher by training, Brice de Beaudrap drew a source of wisdom from wine, “wine taught me virtue, according to Aristotle. Beyond the education and temperance it requires, it requires a real availability of body and mind to taste it and fully appreciate it.“. With Vinophilo, Brice de Beaudrap offers you one hour of availability. The time needed to develop a taste for philosophy in a different way and quench your thirst… for knowledge.
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Brice de Beaudrap, philosopher and founder of VinoPhilo: “Wine taught me virtue”