This post continues my series on whether the millennia-long debate over the nature of beauty can give us important insights into wine quality. (Part 1
Tag: aesthetics of wine
What is a Beautiful Wine? (1)
Does the wine world need the idea of beauty to explain what makes a great wine great? That is not an easy question to answer.
Wine and Beauty
In discourse about wine, we do not have a term that both denotes the highest quality level and indicates what that quality is that such
More on Wine Metaphors
Installment two of my series on wine language, entitled Fleshy With a Bad Attitude: Metaphor and Wine Tasting Notes, is up at Three Quarks Daily.
Do Winemakers Deserve Kudos?
Oliver Styles, as usual, raises an interesting question in his latest article for Wine Searcher: Do we over-emphasize the impact a winemaker has on the
Tasting Vitality (2): Structure
In a previous post I described the motivation behind a revised wine tasting model that elevates a wine’s rhythm and motion on the palate, giving
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 