Any consideration of objectivity in wine tasting must take into consideration a fundamental fact. Our experiences of taste and smell are not “pure” or “uninterpreted”
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Taste Is a Co-Production
The debate about whether wine tasting has objective standards too often assumes a mistaken picture of how taste works. The mistaken picture is something like
Who Do You Believe? The Wine Critic or Your Lyin’ Nose
Do wine critics matter? Isn’t taste subjective? Can there really be wine expertise in the same sense that doctors have expertise at diagnosing diseases and
The Meaning of Wine
Alder Yarrow at Vinography gets the affiliation of wine and art. Wine ultimately embodies connection. The connection between the earth and the sky, or as
What is “Fine Wine”
Wine journalist Jamie Goode asks What is fine wine? and Who gets to decide? His answer is: Fine wines are thought-provoking; they have something to
The Synergy of Music and Wine (or how to waste time on the Internet)
Synergy occurs when two or more things function together to produce a result that they cannot achieve independently. Synergy is essential in the world of
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 