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
Tag: wine criticism
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
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
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 