Among people who write on wine aesthetics there is a near universal commitment to the idea of intersubjectivity as a way of understanding the nature
Category: Wine Culture
The Wine Industry’s Alliance with Fascism
The American Association of Wine Economists has published a list of the wine industry’s contributions to some of this election cycle’s presidential candidates—including the current
Near Term Prospects for the Wine Industry
After assessing the accuracy of some prominent headlines regarding Covid 19 and the wine industry, wine data guru David Morrison digs into the findings of
The Challenge of Hybrid Grape Varietals
This article by Jamie Goode on the need for the wine community to embrace hybrid grape varietals raises an important set of issues. Most of
More Wine Populist Nonsense
This argument, this time from W. Blake Gray, gets really tiresome, but there seems to be no end to the joy wine writers get from
A New Classification System for Wine?
In the U.S. we have no wine classification system that is really informative. Our appellation rules ensure the origin of the grapes to a degree