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
Category: Wine Culture
Cheese, Wine and Time
For flavor hounds, this article about cheese and wine pairing on NPR’s The Salt gives one a lot to chew on. First, it’s nice to
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
The Pursuit of Balance Isn’t What it Seems
I’ve been thinking about harmony as it applies to wine this week but got distracted by the idea of balance, a related but dissimilar concept.
Wine Science, Minerality, and Mission Creep
Jancis Robinson has a nice article up on the hottest topic among wine geeks—minerality. (I did my own write up on it a few weeks
Wine Tasting and Aesthetic Competence
I described basic wine tasting competence recently as the ability to organize taste perceptions into a 4-dimensional field—time, spatial dimensions plus force (assessing the weight
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 