Jancis Robinson has some interesting things to say about wine aesthetics. Last week she reposted a summary of a lecture she gave to the British
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Taste and Social Class
One obstacle to the study of food and wine aesthetics is the complicating role of social class and moral judgment in explaining food or wine
Beyond Balance
Most premium wines and even many budget wines are balanced. To say a wine is balanced doesn’t tell us much except that it was competently
Wine Review: Petit Bourgeois Cabernet Franc IGP Val de Loire 2018
A very pleasant wine and quite versatile at the table. All about freshness, it’s almost childlike, so ingenuous and innocent. Candied red berries with prominent
Italian Wines are Distinctive and That’s a Good Thing
MW Sarah Heller’s paean to the distinctiveness of Italian wines in Club Oenologique gets at an important point about what I call “wine royalty” in
The Nonsense of Customer Reviews
I certainly share Anne Burchett’s complaint about the constant requests for reviews we’re asked to submit for everything from books to Instacart deliveries: For wine
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 