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.
Tag: aesthetics of wine
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
Tasting Vitality: An Introduction
For the past two years, I’ve been working intermittently on developing a new wine tasting model to be included in the book I’m writing on
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 