Jamie Goode’s post What is Greatness in a Wine? is insightful because it moves greatness out of the realm of subjectivity and personal preference: Greatness
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
The Slow Art of Wine
The final installment on my series on creativity and winemaking is up at Three Quarks Daily.
Is What’s in the Glass All That Matters?
I often hear it said that despite all the stories about family and cultural traditions, drinking ideologies, and paeans to terroir, what matters is what’s
Wine Aesthetics and Commerce: An Uneasy Blend
Wine is an aesthetic object as worthy of our sustained attention as works of art or the wonders of nature. Yet wine aesthetics occupies a
Music and Wine Pairing
I attended and presented at a fascinating conference over the weekend—the Postmodern Winemaker Symposium held in Santa Rosa CA. Although it is a meeting of
On Jerks, Snobs and Wine Appreciation
We wine lovers are constantly accused of snobbery, pretension, and arrogance, some of it deserved but most of it misplaced. All of this sniping, often
