Increasingly I think we can understand wine only if we think of it as a living organism. In my 3 Quarks Essay this month I
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
No, Taste is Not Just about Money or Class
Oliver Styles at Wine Searcher asks “Can Money Buy Taste?” by which I think he means, “is your taste in wine best explained by the
Resonance: A Measure of Wine Quality
I’ve been thinking a lot about Martin Seel’s concept of resonance as one of the keys to wine quality. Think of the rustling of leaves,
Do Wine Aromas Have a Structure?
All arts have as their foundation some kind of structure or order–the color wheel or a system of spatial coordinates in painting, harmonic relationships between
How Music Influences the Taste of Wine
I pair music with wine when I writer my wine reviews. But I’ve never described in one place the evidence for wine and music pairing.
Is Alinea the Best Restaurant in the U. S.?
For the 12 years it has been in existence, Grant Achatz’s Alinea, located in a utterly non-descript building in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, has been
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