Wine is many things to many people. That it contains alcohol, encourages conviviality, and tastes good are surely the reasons most people drink wine. But
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Is Wine Tasting Intersubjective?
Among people who write on wine aesthetics there is a near universal commitment to the idea of intersubjectivity as a way of understanding the nature
Wines of Beauty and Obligation
As I discussed last week, one of the persistent themes of modern discussions of beauty is that a judgment that an object is beautiful demands
Must You Love the Wines I Love?
Last week I argued that disagreements among lovers of beauty about what is praiseworthy form communities of rivals—groups of like-minded devotees who find rival beauties
Holistic Tasting and the Fear of Subjectivity
Tasting notes are often derided as excessive, boring, or unhelpful. But most of these criticisms miss the main drawback to most tasting notes. They fail
Rival Beauties
When we communicate about wine, what message is being transmitted? Beauty has long been associated with those moments in life that cannot easily be spoken
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