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
Category: Wine Culture
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
Cool Climate Class: The Wine and Food of the Finger Lakes
A Raft of Riesling Cool climate wine regions are always interesting. Because they cannot rely on consistent sun and warmth to sufficiently ripen grapes, every
In Defense of (some) Wine Flaws
Matt Kramer’s article articulating 5 fundamental rules of wine continues to bother me. Recently, I took issue with his claim that expression of place is
