Judgements about wine quality and which features are exhibited by individual wines are unavoidable in the wine community. Everyone from sommeliers to critics to marketing
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Wine: Tragic Beauty Worthy of Shakespeare
Last week I wrote that part of the beauty of wine lies in its ephemera and its connection to change and mortality. The fleeting, inconstant
Ephemera the Beautiful
I’ve been looking at how the history of debate about the concept of beauty helps us think about the aesthetic experience of wine. (I covered
Fine Wine is a Fine Art
Winemaking is an art. Its production requires aesthetic sensibility and creativity. It is an expressive medium expressing the character of the vineyard, region and vintage.
The Wine and Beauty Chronicles
In my Three Quarks column this month I synthesize my recent ruminations on wine and beauty. There is only a few new, but minor wrinkles
Is Wine Unique as a Beverage with Aesthetic Appeal?
I doubt that I need to persuade readers of this blog that wine can be the source of a genuine aesthetic experience. But what about
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