Wine tasting notes are full of nouns that reference fruits and other aromatic substances. These are helpful in giving readers a foothold in understanding a
Tag: Wine Writing
Are Wine Reviews Really about Purchasing Decisions?
Wine criticism is usually treated as a buying guide. That makes sense up to a point. Wineries use good reviews to sell bottles. Retailers use
A Defense of Wine Writing That’s Really about Tasting
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
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
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 