Skepticism about the value of wine criticism is ubiquitous, as I detailed in this post last month. But pushback against the wine-tasting-is-bunk meme is gathering
Category: Wine Culture
The Wine-Tasting-is-Bunk Meme Won’t Go Away
I’m working on a longer article to show why the studies that purport to show that wine expertise is bunk are misleading. But this article
Food, Wine, and Nostalgia
The world of food and wine thrives on a heavy dose of nostalgia. Culinarians (“foodies’” in the vernacular) chase down heritage tomatoes, ferment their own
Are Wine Enthusiasts Ruining the Sommelier Profession?
I’ve seem some pathetically ridiculous arguments in my life, but this one might just win the prize. Adam Teeter at Winepair argues that people seeking
A Natural Debate over Natural Wines
I guess it must be that time of the year again. Every six months or so, it seems, the wine blogosphere erupts in a cascade of
Ingredient List for Wines?
Andrew Jeffords of Decanter Magazine has a beef: If you add acid to a tin of tomatoes, you have to fess up. If you
