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
Tag: aesthetics of wine
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,
Do Wine Aromas Have a Structure?
All arts have as their foundation some kind of structure or order–the color wheel or a system of spatial coordinates in painting, harmonic relationships between
How Music Influences the Taste of Wine
I pair music with wine when I writer my wine reviews. But I’ve never described in one place the evidence for wine and music pairing.
Emotional Wine
Part 2 of my Wines of Anger and Joy is posted at Three Quarks Daily.
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 