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
Category: Beauty and the Yeast
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
Praise for Beauty and the Yeast
Intrepid wine importer, lyrical wine writer, perceptive wine sage: The only person who fits that description is Terry Theise, author of Reading Between the Wines
How Wine Changes Us
Wine is about transformation–the grapes in the vineyard, the wine in the barrel and bottle, the drink in the glass as its volatile chemicals release