To me, what matters most about a wine is whether it moves the mind and the heart. Does a wine send thoughts on a quest
Tag: wine aesthetics
How We Taste Wine Today
The tasting model currently in use for much of the wine community rests on two pillars. (1) Descriptive terms drawn from the realms of plants,
Emotional Wines
We call wines elegant, simple,sexy, sophisticated, brooding, lively, rustic, authentic, and subtle. These terms are already a routine part of the wine lexicon. So why
Why Wine?
Wine is many things to many people. That it contains alcohol, encourages conviviality, and tastes good are surely the reasons most people drink wine. But
Wines of Beauty and Obligation
As I discussed last week, one of the persistent themes of modern discussions of beauty is that a judgment that an object is beautiful demands
Must You Love the Wines I Love?
Last week I argued that disagreements among lovers of beauty about what is praiseworthy form communities of rivals—groups of like-minded devotees who find rival beauties
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 