Most premium wines and even many budget wines are balanced. To say a wine is balanced doesn’t tell us much except that it was competently
Wine Review: Petit Bourgeois Cabernet Franc IGP Val de Loire 2018
A very pleasant wine and quite versatile at the table. All about freshness, it’s almost childlike, so ingenuous and innocent. Candied red berries with prominent
Italian Wines are Distinctive and That’s a Good Thing
MW Sarah Heller’s paean to the distinctiveness of Italian wines in Club Oenologique gets at an important point about what I call “wine royalty” in
The Nonsense of Customer Reviews
I certainly share Anne Burchett’s complaint about the constant requests for reviews we’re asked to submit for everything from books to Instacart deliveries: For wine
The Value of Disagreement
Disagreements about wine, both individual wines and well as wine styles, are ubiquitous and inevitable. But this is not a bad thing. Aesthetic engagement is
Review of Beauty and the Yeast
I am grateful to W. Blake Gray at Wine Searcher for his very generous review of my book Beauty and the Yeast: A Philosophy of
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 