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
Tag: wine aesthetics
Holistic Tasting and the Fear of Subjectivity
Tasting notes are often derided as excessive, boring, or unhelpful. But most of these criticisms miss the main drawback to most tasting notes. They fail
Wine Tasting and Book Learning
In the wine world there are hundreds of grape varieties used to make wine, thousands of wine regions and sub regions each providing a slightly
The Wine and Beauty Chronicles
In my Three Quarks column this month I synthesize my recent ruminations on wine and beauty. There is only a few new, but minor wrinkles
Between Liking and Judging Quality
In answer to the question whether wine evaluation is fundamentally subjective, most people writing on the philosophy of wine insist on making a distinction between
Terroir as Talisman
Wine writer Margaret Rand has written the best piece I’ve read on terroir in a long time. We all know that climate deeply influences what
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 