We like to imagine wine as something humans make. A product, crafted. The fruit of labor, skill, and tradition. We talk of “control,” of shaping
Category: Wine Culture
The Tyranny of the Algorithmic Palate
There’s a strange comfort in believing that machines know us better than we know ourselves. Spotify delivers the perfect background music for our melancholic Tuesday.
Is Wine a Living Organism?
At first glance, this question seems fanciful— the kind of romantic flourish found in the waxy prose on wine labels. Surely, wine cannot be alive
Making Wine Less Than What it Can Be
It is an oft repeated fact that 90% of wine sold in the U.S is consumed within days of purchase. This is not merely a
Wine and Resistance
Jason Wilson asks a very important question as we sit in front of our screens watching civilization unravel with very little we, as individuals, can
Mystery, What Mystery?
I may not have to pose this question to my audience here but it is useful as an analytic framework to grasp what’s wrong with
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 