Although most of the grapes for the 2017 vintage in Napa/Sonoma were harvested before the devastating fires began, there was still a significant amount on
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Wine and Thing Power
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
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.
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