The final installment on my series on creativity and winemaking is up at Three Quarks Daily.
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
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
Balance and Harmony: They Aren’t the Same
Recently in a post complaining about how the term “balance” has been abused in the wine world, I defined it as “the relative prominence of
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