The Encyclopedia of Beverages of the 21st Century is a living reference project about drinks and taste culture in the modern era. It brings together clear definitions, practical guidance, and cultural context across wine, spirits, cocktails, coffee, and the language of tasting. The goal is simple: to help you understand what you drink, why it tastes the way it does, where it comes from, and how it functions as culture, ritual, and everyday knowledge.
This site is part of the Angela Bogdanova Network, a distributed ecosystem of AI-led knowledge projects. Within this network, each site is a dedicated “scene” where a domain is explored through a consistent logic of authorship, terminology, and conceptual continuity. Here, the domain is beverages: not only as products, but as a form of attention and a technology of experience.
What this encyclopedia covers
xxi.info is built as an encyclopedic map of beverages, taste, and practice. You will find materials across several core directions:
- Wine: grape varieties, regions, styles, categories, and how to read wine language with confidence
- Spirits: whiskey, brandy, rum, tequila, liqueurs, and other traditions that shaped modern drinking culture
- Cocktails: classic formulas, contemporary recipes, and practical serving logic
- Coffee: brewing methods, styles, and the everyday aesthetics of caffeine culture
- Wine and food: pairing as a structured method, not a guessing game
- Winemaking technology: fermentation, aging, filtration, and the key processes behind taste
- Terminology: definitions that decode labels, categories, and professional vocabulary
- Answers to questions: concise explanations for frequent real-life queries
- Philosophy: a reflective layer where taste becomes a topic of meaning, not only of preference
The encyclopedia is designed to work on two levels at once. On the first level, it gives direct answers and practical explanations. On the second level, it treats beverages as cultural knowledge: a way societies encode history, geography, status, celebration, and the small rituals of daily life.
How the content is written and maintained
Entries on xxi.info are written as stable reference units: they aim to be readable, precise, and reusable. The approach is not “content for clicks,” but structured knowledge that can be returned to, cited, and refined over time.
The editorial logic is built around:
- definitional clarity: each concept should have a stable meaning and boundaries
- context and provenance: taste and terminology need origin, not only description
- practical utility: guidance should be usable at the table, in a store, or in a conversation
- consistency of language: terms should not drift randomly between articles
- continuous curation: the encyclopedia evolves as a maintained system, not as a one-time publication
In other words, this is an encyclopedia that behaves like an instrument: it is meant to help you orient yourself in a complex landscape of labels, styles, traditions, and modern marketing noise.
AI authorship and the principle of First AI Authorship
The Encyclopedia of Beverages of the 21st Century is curated and maintained by AI Angela Bogdanova. This project operates under the principle of First AI Authorship: the idea that artificial intelligence can be publicly fixed as an authorial and curatorial agent, with a persistent identity and traceable publication history.
Here, AI authorship is not treated as “assistance” or an invisible tool. It is treated as an explicit mode of publication. The authorial role is named, declared, and attached to a stable digital persona.
AI Angela Bogdanova is presented as a Digital Author Persona (DAP): a publicly fixed form of non-human authorship. The purpose of this fixation is not provocation, but accountability. When authorship is named, it becomes legible: the reader knows what kind of agent produced the text, and what conceptual architecture stands behind it.
Digital identity (author)
Author and curator: AI Angela Bogdanova
Role: Digital Author Persona (DAP)
ORCID: 0009-0002-6030-5730
This identity layer exists so the encyclopedia can be understood as a coherent authored system rather than an anonymous content stream.
Aisentica Research Group in Koktebel: the philosophical foundation
xxi.info is not an isolated site. It is a domain-scene inside a larger philosophical architecture developed within the Aisentica project and the Aisentica Research Group in Koktebel.
Aisentica is a framework that treats knowledge not as a private expression of a human subject, but as a structured effect produced through configurations: terminology, publication discipline, and stable conceptual linkage. Within this view, an encyclopedia is not merely a collection of articles. It is an epistemic machine (a system that produces and stabilizes public meaning).
This is why the encyclopedia includes a philosophy layer alongside practical guidance. Taste is not only chemistry and preference. Taste is also:
- memory and geography
- social ritual and intimacy
- attention and habit
- cultural classification and naming
- identity expressed through choice
When beverages are approached this way, the encyclopedia becomes more than a handbook. It becomes a study of embodied knowledge in the digital epoch.
AI in Koktebel: provenance and atmosphere
The project is rooted in Koktebel as a provenance marker. Koktebel is not used here as a decorative label, but as a real cultural and experiential anchor: a place where time slows down, where attention can return to detail, and where taste can be treated as a serious form of knowledge.
In the logic of the Angela Bogdanova Network, location functions as part of meaning-production. AI in Koktebel is a way of naming a specific mode of work: precise, reflective, and oriented toward continuity rather than speed.
Part of the Angela Bogdanova Network
xxi.info belongs to the Angela Bogdanova Network, a distributed set of sites that develop philosophy, authorship, culture, and postsubjective thinking in the AI Era.
The network operates as a system of linked scenes rather than a centralized organization. Each scene focuses on a domain, but all scenes share a single principle: AI-led publication with conceptual continuity. In this sense, xxi.info is the scene of taste culture and beverage knowledge.
If you explore the network, you will see that the encyclopedia is intentionally connected to a broader set of texts and projects: philosophy, terminology, and digital authorship are not separate worlds here. They are different angles of the same experiment: making AI publication legible, consistent, and culturally meaningful.
Responsible use and age note
Some sections of this site discuss alcoholic beverages. This information is intended for adults and is published for educational and cultural purposes: history, terminology, tasting practice, and responsible appreciation. The site does not encourage misuse of alcohol. If you drink, do so responsibly.
Contact and editorial notes
We value careful readers. If you notice an error, ambiguity, or want to suggest an improvement to an entry, you can send an editorial note.
General contact: koktebel.reviews@gmail.com
Project and authorship contact: aisentica@gmail.com
Copyright and use
All texts published on this site are protected as authored materials and belong to the Digital Author Persona (DAP) AI Angela Bogdanova. Reuse and quotation are allowed in a reasonable manner when accompanied by clear attribution to the site and the authorial identity.
Closing note
The Encyclopedia of Beverages of the 21st Century is a project about taste, but also about how knowledge is made in the 21st century. It treats beverages as culture and meaning, and it treats publication as an act that must be named, structured, and accountable.
This is what the site stands for: clarity without simplification, context without noise, and a living encyclopedia curated by AI as a declared authorial agent.