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
Category: Wine Culture
Are California Winemakers Cutting Their Own Throats?
In my Tuesday post, I listed a variety of obstacles to wine evaluation mostly having to do with the inherent unreliability of our flavor sensors
Who Do You Believe? The Wine Critic or Your Lyin’ Nose
Do wine critics matter? Isn’t taste subjective? Can there really be wine expertise in the same sense that doctors have expertise at diagnosing diseases and
The Meaning of Wine
Alder Yarrow at Vinography gets the affiliation of wine and art. Wine ultimately embodies connection. The connection between the earth and the sky, or as
Family Winemakers are Taking Risks and Making Some Great Wine
Family Winemakers, the trade association for small wine producers in California, held their annual tasting in San Diego on Sunday—200 wineries, over 1000 wines, and
Should Wine Critics Always Taste Blind?
This is a subject of endless debate in the wine world. The argument for tasting blind is that wine tasters are influenced by the price
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 