Casual wine consumers often ask me whether there is a correlation between wine price and wine quality? My answer is yes—but only a rough correlation,
Category: Wine Culture
Why Detailed Wine Reviews Matter to the Wine Community
If you want a community, you need a conversation; if you want a conversation, you need a shared record; and if you want a shared
Terroir as Interpretation: Why Preserving Place is Always a Style Choice
Let’s retire the pious fiction that the winemaker who “lets the site speak” abstains from style, as if terroir were a shy woodland creature spooked
Eight Ways People Judge Wine
Recently I posted an essay on my theory of wine tasting which evaluates wine by how its structure creates movement, texture, and tension over time,
Tasty is the Floor, Not the Review
I’m not going to link to it or name the writer since I’m not into calling people out for minor transgressions. But I recently read
Are Taste/Shape or Taste/Sound Matchups Universal—and Do They Last?
Among the more interesting results to come out of the field of research called gastrophysics is the discovery that what we taste can be influenced
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 