When you approach aesthetics through the appreciation of wine, you might find much of the history of Western aesthetics to be missing the point. Western
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Get Ready for Natural Spirits
Jenny Eagleton at Punch has the story. Apparently there is now a “natural-booze manifesto.” Developed by a Languedoc-based distilling collective that “aims to gather distillers
I’ll Take Paradox Over Your Binary Oppositions
Ch’ng Poh Tiong in World of Fine Wine insists that wines are either impressive or charming but never both. Why we love what we love
The New Scam
Wineries will do anything to gain an edge including manufacturing quality factors out of thin air. Apparently the new “it” innovation in wine is ungrafted
How to Be Non-Binary About Wine
The problems with defining natural wine are well-documented. There is an inherent paradox in any attempt to be precise about what counts as “natural.” As
What is Wine?
This might seem like an unnecessary question. Everybody knows that wine is a liquid made from fermented grapes that we drink for pleasure or consume
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 