I have a love/hate relationship with wine science. While advances in our scientific understanding of viticulture and winemaking have produced enormous gains in the overall
Tag: Wine Writing
Stupid Headline of the Month
What do you get when you lay off staff writers and treat your wine column as filler? Nonsense like this. Huffington Post ran this story
First Prize: Dumbest Wine Article Ever
People say a lot of inane things about wine on the Internets, most of which I just try to ignore. This one is just so
Stupid Wine Journalism
One of the big debates in the wine world is over the virtues of ripe, alcoholic fruit bombs vs. subtle, restrained wines with lower alcohol.
Why Do Wine Writers Review Only Wines I Can’t Find?
This article by NY Times columnist Eric Asimov is receiving lots of justifiable attention because it articulates one of the main frustrations of wine writers
Tasting Notes and the Poetry of Wine
That perennially momentous issue, the value of tasting notes, popped up again last week among luminaries of the wine writing guild. Keith Levenberg started the
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 