Any consideration of objectivity in wine tasting must take into consideration a fundamental fact. Our experiences of taste and smell are not “pure” or “uninterpreted”
Category: Wine Culture
In Defense of Wine Snobs
Wine writer Blake Gray poses a profound question—What is a wine snob and why are they the object of ridicule and vilification? You can stand
A Revolution in California Wines? I Doubt It.
California wines received some attention from Newsweek magazine earlier this week with an article that wins the prize for a misleading headline. The headline was
The Philosophy of Mind Finally Penetrates Wine Culture
Joe Roberts (AKA 1WineDude) has an insightful discussion of the issue of objectivity of wine ratings. And to make his point he drags the word
Another Attack on Wine Expertise
The recent article by Hayes and Pickering in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (behind a paywall) has gotten a lot of attention from
Who’s The Expert?
I have been musing about the nature of tasting expertise (wine and food criticism) in recent weeks (here, here, here, and here); but I don’t
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 