In the modern winery, the term “winemaker” is often misleading—“wine designer” might be more appropriate. In most wineries with an annual case production above about
Category: Wine Culture
Does Alcohol Harm Wine Evaluation?
One of the often repeated objections to the validity of wine criticism is that the influence of alcohol destroys the capacity for good judgment. Unlike
Do We Really Want Stories Instead of Quality?
We are often told by people in the wine industry, especially PR professionals, that new generations of wine drinkers no longer care about scores or
It’s Time to Let Go of the Idea that Wine Makes Itself
This recent article by Zachary Sussman in Punch provides a much needed corrective to what has become a cliché that winemakers do nothing except let
The Problems With Wine Scores Episode 489
Stats wizard David Morrison has a compelling argument that scores between wine critics cannot be compared except in the rare case in which two critics
The Study on Emotion and Wine Revisited
Last month I discussed a report of a new study that showed correlations between wine and emotions. At the time I didn’t have access to
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 