Category Archives: philosophy

It's not easy being green: a post about Bordeaux, carbon and biodynamics

By winecase | Published: November 25, 2008
Two relatively unrelated bits of reading got me going on the whole question of wine and the environment, yesterday. The first one was a  Decanter News item about the Bordeaux wine industry’s Carbon initiative, and the steps it was proposing to curb the region’s greenhouse gas emissions (thanks to Tim, from Winecast, for tweeting it). [...]
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Philosophy and the 100-point rating system.

By winecase | Published: December 8, 2007
I read this very interesting review of a book called Questions of Taste. The Philosophy of Wine, by Barry C. Smith. Heady stuff about subjectivity and authority. The review contains this lovely analogy about the excessive importance taken by rating systems like the Parker/Wine Spectator 100-point scale: So the illustrious British critic Hugh Johnston scoffs, calling Parker’s [...]
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