Last week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended lowering the legal blood alcohol level for drivers from .08 to .05, a standard that many other
Category: Wine Culture
No. Wine Tasting is not Bullshit
I intended to write up a take down of this snarky piece of piffle called Wine Tasting is Bullshit. Yep. Another know-nothing talking about something
Not by Bread Alone: Morality and Wine
Tom Wark’s blog post,”The Moralist the and Wine Blogger” struck a nerve, in part because I’ve had this debate with myself. Wark, a wine publicist
California Wine Regions and Climate Change: What Can Be Done?
Conservation International’s recent report on the influence of climate change on wine regions contained some disturbing implications for California’s quality grape-growing regions. But the response
Tasting Notes and the Poetry of Wine
That perennially momentous issue, the value of tasting notes, popped up again last week among luminaries of the wine writing guild. Keith Levenberg started the
Is Terroir Real or a Marketing Gimmick?
Few terms in the wine world are more controversial than “terroir“, the French word meaning “of the soil”. “Terroir” refers to the influence of soil
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 