From its origins in Eurasia some 8,000 years ago, wine has spread to become a staple at dinner tables throughout the world. People devote lifetimes
Tag: aesthetics of wine
Can We Dispense With the Idea That Wine Should Be Easy?
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. If something is worth doing in January it’s worth doing in July. But I do have hopes for the
Is Wine a Living Organism?
Is wine really alive or is this often repeated claim a metaphor? I explore the life of wine in my Three Quarks Daily column this
Wine and Thing Power
Increasingly I think we can understand wine only if we think of it as a living organism. In my 3 Quarks Essay this month I
Lovely Unloveliness
Andrew Jeffords comments, “The greatest wines often have a lovely unloveliness at their heart”. Some old friends and I chewed over (the verb is accurate)
Resonance: A Measure of Wine Quality
I’ve been thinking a lot about Martin Seel’s concept of resonance as one of the keys to wine quality. Think of the rustling of leaves,
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 