Articles claiming that wine tasting expertise is “junk” or “fake” are a time-tested winner in the media guaranteed to get non-experts to nod in agreement,
Category: Wine Culture
Status-Envy in the Wine World and Beyond
At Wine Searcher, Oliver Styles rags on sommeliers but then grants that everyone from wine writers to cellar hands gets into the act. Sommeliers –
The Terroirists Win!
This is interesting in itself from a “look what we can do” perspective: What if it were possible to prove that every vineyard soil, anywhere
Ambiguity and Wine Tasting
Andrew Jeffords writes about a comment from a reader who wonders how wine writers judge wines they don’t like. The reader dislikes: wines that are
Buyer Beware
It was inevitable but it isn’t all to the good. Natural wine is going mainstream according to Jordan Michelman writing in Bon Appétit Restaurants and
Hard to Know What to Say
A columnist for Texas Monthly received this comment from a reader in Lubbock Texas: I recently read that Texas has hundreds of wineries, and that
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 