From the archives, reposting in celebration of Valentine’s Day Among all the alcoholic beverages we consume, wine is most often linked with romance. The Roman
Tag: aesthetics of wine
Millennials and La Dolce Vita
The buzz in the wine world over the past two weeks has been the grim news from Silicon Valley Bank’s annual State of the Wine
The Attractions of Viticulture
Viticulture requires lots of technical know-how, efficiency, and a capacity for physical labor. But it also requires something like aesthetic sensitivity—a capacity for fine-grained perception
Wine and “Making Special”
In recent years there have been several important books devoted to understanding art as a product of human evolution. The art historian Ellen Dissanayake is
On Winery Visits and the Aesthetics of Toil
Most aesthetics is dominated by an aesthetics of distance, especially distance from the origins of a work. The aesthetics of wine is no exception. Just
Must You Like a Wine in Order to Appreciate It?
In his essay in the philosophy journal Erkenntnis, David Sackris argues that in order to appreciate a wine, you must like it. He will use
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 