I suppose one of the original justifications for scoring wine was that it would give us a reasonably objective ordering of aesthetic quality. This was
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Taste, Smell, and Cognition
Traditionally, philosophers have sharply distinguished the higher and lower senses and argued that only objects sensed via sight and hearing can be beautiful. We speak
Wine, Food, and Life Itself
Too often food and wine are understood as symbols of “the good life”, a life of ease, luxury, sophistication, and refined taste. But this is
Wine’s Imitation Game
My Three Quarks Daily column this month considers the possible future in which great wines like a 1982 Lafite Rothschild can be reverse engineered and
Wine, Good Food, and Grace
A life in which the pleasures of food and drink are not central is missing a crucial dimension of a good life. Food and drink,
Philosophy has Been Wrong About Wine for 2500 Years
Throughout most of philosophy’s history, wine has been treated as an insignificant diversion, incapable of being beautiful and incapable of producing genuine aesthetic pleasure. The
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