In my series on the nature of wine criticism, I’ve been arguing that part of what distinguishes wine criticism from other kinds of wine evaluation
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The Abilities of a Good Wine Critic (Part 6 in a series)
I argued recently that the job of the wine critic is to help readers appreciate a wine by communicating the properties and appropriate responses to
How to Talk About Wine
The question of what language we should be using to describe wine is important not only for wine appreciation but to enable wineries to sell
The Wine Critic’s Job (#5 in a series on wine criticism)
In this series of posts I’ve been arguing that the primary purpose of wine criticism is to aid in appreciation. Thus, to provide an account
The Mixed Legacy of Robert Parker
To what degree do wine critics influence wine quality? This is a complicated question but in my 3 Quarks essay this month I begin to
Appreciating Wine for the Right Reasons (Part 4 in a Series)
In my recent post on the nature of wine appreciation, I argued that to appreciate a wine is to respond appropriately to it. For appreciation,it
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