People outside the wine world (and some within the wine world as well) have great fun ridiculing wine lovers who spend small fortunes on a
Tag: wine aesthetics
Wine is about People and Places, Not Just Taste, Texture, and Aromas
In the art world, formalism has been on of the most important theories of interpretation and evaluation since the mid-20th century. Formalism is the view
How to Appreciate a Wine: Two Methods
In the art world there has long been a debate between two methods for approaching a work—an empiricist approach vs. a contextualist approach. There is
Like Liquid Rags in Your Mouth
Hands down, this article in Financial Times by Tamlyn Currin (who writes for Jancis Robinson) is the best thing I’ve read on the vexed topic
Wine and the Many Sides of Beauty
Some wines have the status of classic works of art: First growth Bordeaux; Burgundy Grand Cru; or, well aged Giacomo Conterno Barolo to name a
Pet Names and Aesthetic Communities
When I started thinking philosophically about food and wine many years ago, one of the first things I noticed was that the wine world had
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 