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
Tag: wine criticism
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
Taste Is a Co-Production
The debate about whether wine tasting has objective standards too often assumes a mistaken picture of how taste works. The mistaken picture is something like
Are California Winemakers Cutting Their Own Throats?
In my Tuesday post, I listed a variety of obstacles to wine evaluation mostly having to do with the inherent unreliability of our flavor sensors
Who Do You Believe? The Wine Critic or Your Lyin’ Nose
Do wine critics matter? Isn’t taste subjective? Can there really be wine expertise in the same sense that doctors have expertise at diagnosing diseases and
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 