This post continues my series on whether the millennia-long debate over the nature of beauty can give us important insights into wine quality. (Part 1
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Wine Review: Comte Leloup du Chateau de Chasseloir sur lie Muscadet de Sèrve-et-Maine 2014
What a pleasant wine this is, the magic of sur lie ageing on display. Racy in its outer display, its inner soul is the charming,
Creativity and Loaded Guns
Because I write about aesthetics and have had a life-long interest in art and music, I hold creativity and imagination in very high regard. My
Between Liking and Judging Quality
In answer to the question whether wine evaluation is fundamentally subjective, most people writing on the philosophy of wine insist on making a distinction between
What is a Beautiful Wine? (1)
Does the wine world need the idea of beauty to explain what makes a great wine great? That is not an easy question to answer.
Ageing Report: Penner-Ash Pinot Noir Willamette Valley 2011
When we visited Willamette Valley in the fall of 2014 the tasting rooms were pouring their 2011 vintage. I had been a dreadful, cool, rainy
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 