Mike Veseth, The Wine Economist, has a thought-provoking post on the possibility of new world Grand Crus. The occasion was a zoom event devoted to
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Wine Review: Weingut Burg Ravensburg Sulzfield Blaufränkisch Baden 2017
I love the offbeat personality of this German Blaufränkisch from Baden. Complex and mercurial, it opens innocently inviting, then turns feral, finally finishing dry and
Happy Birthday Blog!
Today is the 10th Anniversary of Edible Arts. My first post was on 10/5/2011. 2,442 posts later, with 413, 138 page views, it’s still going
On the Synthetic Nature of Wine Tasting (Part 2)
In a recently published review article, Portuguese microbiologist Manuel Malfeito-Ferreira argues that wine tasting is essentially synthetic or holistic in contrast to the dominant view
Wine Scores and the Right Kind of Subjectivity
Several years ago, at Wine Searcher, Joel Peterson, Zinfandel pioneer and founder of Ravenswood, in response to a question about the 100-point scoring system, related
Sustainability and Worker Compensation in the Wine Business
Why should the concept of sustainability apply only to environmental concerns? This question is raised in a particularly helpful way by Jono Le Feuvre in
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 