Terry Theise has long been my favorite wine writer. His book What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime played a central
Tag: Wine Writing
Tasty is the Floor, Not the Review
I’m not going to link to it or name the writer since I’m not into calling people out for minor transgressions. But I recently read
If Wine is Poetry in a Glass, Then Writing About It Must Be Poetry on the Page
Wine resists language. It slips through the mesh of vocabulary, defying even the most finely woven nets of metaphor, reference, and sensory notation. We reach
The Fate of Wine
Karen MacNeil, author of the renowned Wine Bible gave a talk recently at the Mondavi Institute at UC Davis entitled “Nothing Left to Say? The
The Right Way to Describe a Wine
Robert Joseph asks Can We Ever Develop a Universal Language of Wine? The short answer is no. The language needed to convey what a wine
How to Be Non-Binary About Wine
The problems with defining natural wine are well-documented. There is an inherent paradox in any attempt to be precise about what counts as “natural.” As
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 