I argued last week that flavors and aromas do not exist in the wine or in the mind but at their intersection. What exists in
Tag: objectivity
Reflections on Objectivity and Wine Tasting (1)
The debate about whether wine tasting has objective standards too often assumes a mistaken picture of how taste works. The mistaken picture is something like
In the Wine World We Should Stop Fretting about Objectivity
I suppose one of the original justifications for scoring wine was that it would give us a reasonably objective ordering of aesthetic quality. This was
More Evidence that Tasting Expertise is Real
The best evidence that tasting expertise is real and that some dimensions of wine tasting are objective is the fact that, each year, many people
Thinking about Objectivity and Wine Tasting
Although the belief that wine tasting is subjective is common even among wine professionals, no one in the wine industry really believes it. Everyone from
Are We Training Wine Tasters or Cyborgs?
In my series on the nature of wine criticism, I’ve been arguing that part of what distinguishes wine criticism from other kinds of wine evaluation
