That perennially momentous issue, the value of tasting notes, popped up again last week among luminaries of the wine writing guild. Keith Levenberg started the
Tag: wine criticism
Criticism and Objectivity: A Moral Imperative
Questions about the objectivity of food or wine appreciation could be easily resolved if a certain picture of how taste works were true. That picture
A Revolution in California Wines? I Doubt It.
California wines received some attention from Newsweek magazine earlier this week with an article that wins the prize for a misleading headline. The headline was
The Philosophy of Mind Finally Penetrates Wine Culture
Joe Roberts (AKA 1WineDude) has an insightful discussion of the issue of objectivity of wine ratings. And to make his point he drags the word
Another Attack on Wine Expertise
The recent article by Hayes and Pickering in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (behind a paywall) has gotten a lot of attention from
Who’s The Expert?
I have been musing about the nature of tasting expertise (wine and food criticism) in recent weeks (here, here, here, and here); but I don’t
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 