Almost everyone deeply engaged in wine culture has an aha moment—the instant when wine ceases to be just another beverage and reveals itself as something
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A New Tasting Paradigm?
Tasting wine analytically involves a detailed examination of aromas as well as breaking down its structure into basic elements of acidity, sweetness, tannins, alcohol, and
Why are Wine People so Likeable?
I’m not much interested in end-of-the-year retrospectives largely because I prefer moving forward to looking back. But a cursory jaunt through my porous memory banks
Taste, Representation, and the Art of Cuisine
Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily. In philosophical debates about the aesthetic potential of cuisine, one central topic has been the degree to which smell
Will AI Replace Wine Tasters?
Philosopher Barry Smith, director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, says probably not, in his recent wide ranging essay in World of
The Problem of Good Taste
What precisely is good taste? It can’t be merely a sense for what is appropriate given contemporary social norms because people who are alleged to
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 