I have just heard from a colleague of mine that there’s a winery in Austria that has a “House of Mathematics” label, with wines named after Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.
However, I haven’t been able to google anything about it. Does any Doper have any leads? (Apparently these wines aren’t sold in the US.)
I have a feeling this question may be a tough one, but we’ll see if the Dope can come through.
Should the put Orson Welles’ famous line “We Will Sell no Wine Before its Time” be put on bottles of Galois?
(Evariste Galois 1811-1832, who was supposed to have tried to write down all his unpublished mathematical work the night before he was to have fought in a duel, in which he was killed, supposedly saying “There is not enough time!” The story has been pretty much debinked, but it’s a good story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evariste_Galois )
Hey, in fact it was from the mailing list of the US-based Euler Society that I heard about this winery, precisely because they are apparently now developing a wine named for Euler! We are all very excited about this!
(As I mentioned in the OP, however, the vintner apparently isn’t marketing these wines in North America.)
And I’m enjoying the mathematical puns and all, but I’m hoping somebody shows up with the Straight Dope on this winery too!
I don’t know about Austria, but there is an American wine named after [urlhttp://www.pindar.net/cgi-bin/wines.pl?action=view&id=16]Pythagorus. Pretty good stuff, even if it is reincarnated.
I bought a bottle of Zeno because it was advertised as bottomless. First I drink half the bottle; then I drink half of what remains; then I drink half of that…
Did you know that the proof system for rating the alcohol content of a bottle of booze has its origins in higher mathematics? It’s true–divide that number by ten, and you have the number of theorems a competent mathematician should be able to get out of the bottle.
I imagine the number theorists would prefer a hardy wine with a little wood flavor?
Cantor might make a better beer: Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall
Aleph-null bottles of beer
Take one down
Pass it around
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall…
Yeah, he finally replied and said that the winery is Eisenbock. I can’t find anything about the mathematician wines on their website, but they’re allegedly sold at the “Haus der Mathematik” in Vienna.
Thanks to all respondents for your “help”—it was fun to read, at least!
I don’t know about the Mathematics line, but I found the first Wittgenstein vintage I tried needlessly complex. The server snatched it away from me and told me I was stupid fool unworthy to drink it, then thought about it for a while and gave me a completely different one.