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
Thinking Differently about Objectivity
Judgements about wine quality and which features are exhibited by individual wines are unavoidable in the wine community. Everyone from sommeliers to critics to marketing
Wine: Tragic Beauty Worthy of Shakespeare
Last week I wrote that part of the beauty of wine lies in its ephemera and its connection to change and mortality. The fleeting, inconstant
Ageing Report: Epoch Authenticity Paderewski Vineyard Paso Robles 2008
Massive, ripe and hot about covers this Syrah from Paso Robles. I am not among those who disdain high alcohol wines. They have their place.
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
Ephemera the Beautiful
I’ve been looking at how the history of debate about the concept of beauty helps us think about the aesthetic experience of wine. (I covered
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 