The wine industry faces many immediate challenges from climate change to competition from beer and spirits. But among those challenges is one you seldom hear
Tag: wine criticism
Should Wines Be Judged Without Context?
I’m puzzled by Oliver Styles’ recent article at Wine Searcher. His target is the widely held assumption that context is critical in judging a wine.
The Wine Spectator Lives in a Bubble
At Wine Searcher, winemaker and writer Oliver Styles eviscerates the Wine Spectator’s Senior Editor James Molesworth for his apparent dogmatic attitude towards natural wine. There
Eric Asimov is On a Roll
New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov has been rolling out the advice lately for how wine reviewing ought to change. In a series of
Wine is a Process; Forget About Consistency
Wine statistics guru David Morrison has done great work evaluating the degree to which wine scores are consistent between critics and repeatable by the same
The Wine Critic’s Job (part 2): Tracking Variation
In my last post in this series on wine criticism I argued that the job of the wine critic is to make readers aware of
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 