French Viognier is not exactly on the average wine consumer’s radar. The good ones from the Northern Rhone are very expensive and the less pricey
In Taste Is There No Argument?
It’s a cliché to point out that taste is subjective, not only because people have different preferences but because our ability to taste various substances
Farm to Fable
It was bound to happen but it is no less disappointing for being inevitable: Like any good movement, farm-to-table has now been severely co-opted. The
Ponzi Pinot Gris Willamette Valley 2014
I don’t hate any of the major wine varieties; there is a time and place for all of them. But it is a very bad
Budget Wine: Two Vines Shiraz Washington State 2009
Two Vines is Columbia Crest’s entry level wine. This one is a bit of a curiosity. A wine under current release for less than ten
A Defense of Eating Meat
Earlier in the week, Grist’s food writer Nathaniel Johnson published an article in which he claims philosophers have failed to even take up, let alone
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 