Acknowledgements

This book is the product of a long-term research on wine by its three authors, both at an individual level and collectively. We first met at a research meeting in UNED Madrid in 2007 and from that moment, we started a research – and, eventually, personal – relationship that crystallizes in the present work. Through our joint work, we have also been able to secure funding for various research projects (from the humble Traduciendo los Sentidos. Metáfora en la Retórica del Vino funded by the University of Castilla-La Mancha in 2005 to the more challenging projects MoVEs II. Géneros del Discurso y Tipología Aplicada (grant FFI2013-45553-C3-2-P, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) and the ongoing project MAP(h)AS, Maneras de Actuar, Pensar, Hablar y Sentir en Inglés y Español (grant FFI2017-86359-P, Ministerio de Economía Industria y Competitividad), organized research meetings (Speaking about Sensory Perceptions, funded by The Swedish Bank Tercentenary Foundation in 2009 and thematic sessions (Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm in 2012; The Language of the Senses, XI International Conference of AELCO, Córdoba University in 2018) and, of course, drank our way through many conferences around the world. During the years that we have worked on how wine is represented, we have also received funding for several research stays from European Science Foundation (the European Network on word Structure: Cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding word structure in the languages of Europe (NetWordS), 2011–2015 and from the Royal Society of Letters at Lund (Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet.

Finally, we want to thank the organizations, wineries and firms that have allowed us the use of charts and images. In the first place, we are grateful to the Deutsches Weininstitut GmbH and Herr Prof. Ulrich Fischer, DLR Rheinpfalz, for letting us use their pictures. We are also indebted to the following wineries that have given us permission to use their advertisements: Ca N’Estruc, Bodegas Canopy, Masi Agricola, Stags’ Leap Winery, AOC Saint-Estèphe, and Bodegas Palacios Remondo. Finally, many thanks to LopezLi Producciones for granting us permission to reproduce a still from their film Jerez y el misterio del palo cortado.