Jancis Robinson has a nice article up on the hottest topic among wine geeks—minerality. (I did my own write up on it a few weeks
Tag: wine tasting
Wine Tasting and Aesthetic Competence
I described basic wine tasting competence recently as the ability to organize taste perceptions into a 4-dimensional field—time, spatial dimensions plus force (assessing the weight
In Defense of (some) Wine Flaws
Matt Kramer’s article articulating 5 fundamental rules of wine continues to bother me. Recently, I took issue with his claim that expression of place is
Basic Wine Tasting Competence
Wine tasting is difficult, especially for beginners, because the basic components of wine are a jumble that seemingly have no structure. To appreciate wine you
The Controversy Over Minerality
One of the most interesting debates in the wine world today is the debate over minerality. Does it exist? What is it? and Where does
Why are there only 354 Masters of Wine?
A Master of Wine is someone who has passed the rigorous tasting and theory exams and submitted an acceptable research paper to the The Institute
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 