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This is the best explanation/justification I have encountered for the phenomenon of wine. It seems reasonable to me that wine not only gives you an experience, but enables you to have an experience.
I think you could probably find similar themes in literary criticism, and fly fishing. Great pastimes have a bit of canvas too them? Wine seems to run into trouble in that it has a pay-to-play element to it.