In recent years there have been several important books devoted to understanding art as a product of human evolution. The art historian Ellen Dissanayake is
Are Single Vineyard Wines Inherently More Distinctive?
Tom Barras captures an important distinction within the wine-buying public in his post about wine appreciation. I could be wrong, but my gut feel about
On Winery Visits and the Aesthetics of Toil
Most aesthetics is dominated by an aesthetics of distance, especially distance from the origins of a work. The aesthetics of wine is no exception. Just
Tasting Notes and the Debate about Subjectivity
This article by Chris Losh in Decanter describes well the difficulty of writing good tasting notes. As he notes, part of the difficulty is that
The Cult of Pinot Noir: A Former Member Speaks
In his post “Pinotism is a cult within the wine world. Why?” Andrew Jeffords points to the peculiar and singular status of Pinot Noir: The
Monkey Wine
Much has been discovered recently about the early history of wine. As Christopher Howard writes in “Five Turning points in the Evolution of Wine”, This
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 