Installment two of my series on wine language, entitled Fleshy With a Bad Attitude: Metaphor and Wine Tasting Notes, is up at Three Quarks Daily.
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
The Latest on the Flavor Pairing Saga
Back in the 2000s data scientists began crunchy large data sets of recipes searching for the secret behind why certain flavor combinations work. Chefs were
Ageing Report: Levendi Cabernet Sauvignon Stagecoach Vineyard Napa Valley 2006
Young Cabernet Sauvignon is like shredding guitars and wham bam thank you m’am–big, edgy, even angry. But with age it can settle into a deep,
A Wine Country Travesty
It is sad to hear stories like this. Rob McMillan posts an email he received from a wine lover and his daughter who were treated
Funk is the New Black
Markham Heid explores the hermeneutics of “funky” in the wine world. Traditionally, funky meant that something was off,” says Linda Bisson, a professor emeritus of
Terroir as Talisman
Wine writer Margaret Rand has written the best piece I’ve read on terroir in a long time. We all know that climate deeply influences what
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 