Glass Shape, Aroma, and the Game of S...
I’ve never actually attended one of the infamous Riedel seminars at which a sleek Riedel representative demonstrates...
Privately Funded Wine Research: It...
Should we be worried about companies sponsoring wine-related research? In a word: no.
Experience, Culture, Age, and Other F...
The judges who evaluate wines come from many different countries. All of the judges are professionals: winemakers, sommeliers, buyers or wine journalists. However, their personal and cultural backgrounds are different. So the question is: is it also possible that their perceptions of wine are different?
Pairing and the Power of Suggestion
More often than not, food and wine pairing seems to me no more than hypnotism without the swinging watch. Some...
Darth Vader is My Lover: Revelations ...
The seminar was ground-breaking for UC Davis, which previously always called Brettanomyces in wine a "spoilage organism." This was the first time the university acknowledged that brett is an important part of some wines' terroir.


