Rare wine has a peculiar power over us. Tell someone a bottle is hard to find and sold only through a mailing list and the
The Difference Between Rustic and Incompetence
I struggle with “rustic.” I have a glass of Aglianico in front of me. The aromas are bold with plenty of secondary and tertiary notes
What is a Great Wine?
As a wine writer and more importantly a wine lover, I have tasted a lot of wine. A small portion of it was dreadful, most
The Pleasure of Almost Remembering
One of the odd pleasures of wine occurs when an aroma seems familiar but cannot be clearly identified. You take a whiff and catch something.
I Miss the Old Days When Aesthetics Mattered
It wasn’t so long ago that the most intense arguments in wine were about aesthetics. They were philosophical, occasionally personal, and often quite nasty. But
Will AI Replace Wine Criticism?
Originally published at Three Quarks Daily. In World of Fine Wine, Master of Wine Benjamin Lewin speculates about whether AI could replace human-generated wine criticism.
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 