We typically don’t think of wine tasting as an imaginative activity. But imagination is an important part of appreciation and is crucial to wine writing.
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More on Wine Metaphors
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.
Complaints about Wine Metaphors are Tilting at Windmills
Wine writers, especially those who write wine reviews, are often derided for the flowery, overly imaginative language they use to describe wines. In my Three
Book Review: Drink More Wine! A Simple Guide to Peak Experiences NOW
Cross-posted at Three Quarks Daily. It’s the holiday season and time to think about presents for the budding wine lover in your life. Of course,
Wine and Soul
Wine importer Terry Thiese’s wonderful book What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime raises many philosophical issues. For Theise, wine has
Defending the Wine Critics
It’s fashionable to criticize wine critics for a variety of sins: they’re biased, their scores don’t mean anything, and their jargon is unintelligible according to
