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
Category: Beauty and the Yeast
Wine the Seducer
When buried in tasting notes, scores, competitions, marketing fashions, and sommelier exams that define our contemporary wine culture, we can often lose sight of wine’s
A Strange Attraction
When I started to study wine seriously, I was most impressed by the powerful commitment that some people make to wine with no guarantee of
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
Review of Beauty and the Yeast
I am grateful to W. Blake Gray at Wine Searcher for his very generous review of my book Beauty and the Yeast: A Philosophy of
Wine and Imagination in Perullo’s Epistenology: Wine as Experience
You know, if you’ve poked around this blog for awhile, that I think wine is more than a collection of aromas and textures. Wine stimulates
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 