Jancis Robinson has some interesting things to say about wine aesthetics. Last week she reposted a summary of a lecture she gave to the British
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Beyond Balance
Most premium wines and even many budget wines are balanced. To say a wine is balanced doesn’t tell us much except that it was competently
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
The Value of Disagreement
Disagreements about wine, both individual wines and well as wine styles, are ubiquitous and inevitable. But this is not a bad thing. Aesthetic engagement is
Wine Talk and Shallow Subjectivity
In beginning to articulate what it is about wine that moves us, we have to acknowledge that making wine and appreciating wine are both social
Wine Appreciation, Irony, and a Game of Striving
Originally posted at Three Quarks Daily. For many wine lovers, understanding wine is hard work. We study maps of wine regions and their climates, learn
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