In tasting notes, wine education materials, and wine discourse in general, aromas are assumed to be the most accessible properties of a wine. In fact
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Reflections on Objectivity and Wine Tasting (Part 2)
I argued last week that flavors and aromas do not exist in the wine or in the mind but at their intersection. What exists in
How Should We Define Tasting Expertise?
Do wine and food critics have a special expertise that gives authority to their pronouncements, or is it all just subjective preference dressed up with
Reflections on Objectivity and Wine Tasting (1)
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
Do You Believe the Wine Critic or Your Lyin’ Nose?
Are wine critics reliable? Isn’t taste subjective? Can there really be wine expertise in the same sense that doctors have expertise at diagnosing diseases and
“Fruit Bombs” are Misnamed
It is common to associate ripeness with warm climates. But there is more nuance to this relationship between heat and ripeness than is commonly assumed.
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 