Tasting notes are often derided as excessive, boring, or unhelpful. But most of these criticisms miss the main drawback to most tasting notes. They fail
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Thinking Differently about Objectivity
Judgements about wine quality and which features are exhibited by individual wines are unavoidable in the wine community. Everyone from sommeliers to critics to marketing
Wine Drinkers are from Venus; Wine Tasters are from Mars
Many discussions about wine that appear in popular writing or in casual conversations fail to distinguish the practice of wine tasting from the activity of
Between Liking and Judging Quality
In answer to the question whether wine evaluation is fundamentally subjective, most people writing on the philosophy of wine insist on making a distinction between
Wine Tasting in the Age of Corona
As the U.S. begins to implement social distancing in order to reduce transmission of the coronavirus to manageable levels, there are two things we should
More Evidence that Tasting Expertise is Real
The best evidence that tasting expertise is real and that some dimensions of wine tasting are objective is the fact that, each year, many people
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 