David White wants wine lovers to relax about those studies purporting to show that even wine experts can be systematically fooled about what their tasting.
Tag: wine tasting
More Nonsense from the Press About Wine Tasting
Joe Pinsker in the Atlantic shows he not only knows nothing about wine; he is also logically challenged. Pinsker argues that because most people, even
Wine Tasting and Community
I suspect most people would agree that the point of drinking wine is to get drunk, or a least tipsy. But I argue in my
Have You Tasted an Illusion Lately?
Wine tasters have come in for their share of ridicule as the result of studies that seem to show we can be easily confused about
Pushing Back Against the Green-Eyed Jealous Monster
Skepticism about the value of wine criticism is ubiquitous, as I detailed in this post last month. But pushback against the wine-tasting-is-bunk meme is gathering
Wine Tasting: Is it Nonsense?
The media loves to report studies which claim to show wine tasting is nonsense. In my 3 Quarks essay this month I show why the
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 