Do wine and food critics have a special expertise that gives authority to their pronouncements, or is it all just subjective preference dressed up with
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Reflections on Objectivity and Wine Tasting (1)
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
Why Wine Tasting Notes are Not Helpful
Look on the back label of most wine bottles and you will find a tasting note that reads like a fruit basket—a list of various
Why Great Wines are Works of Art
Wine lovers are amazed by and wholly absorbed in the creative collaboration of culture and nature. Almost all cultures throughout human history have treated certain
Do You Believe the Wine Critic or Your Lyin’ Nose?
Are wine critics reliable? Isn’t taste subjective? Can there really be wine expertise in the same sense that doctors have expertise at diagnosing diseases and
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