Having good taste requires evaluating quality. But what is quality? The quality of a wine, like the quality of a painting or a musical work,
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Wine and Food That Makes You Cry
Can wine or food express emotions? It seems obvious that they can but philosophers have tended to disagree. Here is Elizabeth Telfer in her book
Meta Cognition and Wine Tasting
In discussions of wine tasting, we don’t pay enough attention to only resource we really have to avoid excessive subjectivity—meta cognition. “Meta-cognition” refers to the
Why Wine Tasters Miss the Forest for the Trees
Over the past few months I have devoted several posts to the contrast between synthetic vs. analytic tasting. (Here is my initial post on the
Wine and Romance: A Valentine
It’s Valentine’s Day so I’m reposting this Valentine to Wine from the archives. Among all the alcoholic beverages we consume, wine is most often linked
Must We Like a Wine to Appreciate It (part 2)?
This week I’m continuing to ponder the question of whether, in wine criticism, preferences can be separated from evaluation. Philosopher David Sackris argues that preferences
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 