I have a love/hate relationship with wine science. While advances in our scientific understanding of viticulture and winemaking have produced enormous gains in the overall
Tag: tasting notes
What Can Music Tell Us about Wine?
Now that food and wine pairings have become standard fare, we need something else to puzzle and fret over when preparing a dinner—and we scribblers
Tasting with Imagination
Complaints about tasting notes are ubiquitous in the wine blogosphere. The most common complaints are that lists of flavor notes are uninformative, excessively obscure, or
How Not to Sell a Wine
Rob McMillan’s post today on wine marketing language got me thinking about wine tasting notes once again. McMillan, a banker specializing in wine-related business, thinks
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 