Dwight Furrow
@DwightFurrow
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Wine, food, travel writer, philosophy professor writing on the aesthetics of #food and #wine. Most of my writing can be accessed via Edible Arts. Wine reviews.
San Diego
Joined June 2013
My book “Beauty and the Yeast” analyzes #wine as an expressive, living organism that challenges assumptions about creativity, beauty, good taste, and objectivity and explains why we should rethink established wine traditions. Available world wide. https://t.co/beKqVwt3Tj
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This is an important issue for #wine criticism. If you don't like a style of wine can you fairly evaluate it? #philosophy
foodandwineaesthetics.com
In his essay in the philosophy journal Erkenntnis, David Sackris argues that in order to appreciate a wine, you must like it. He will use this claim to, among other points, call into question the v…
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At World of Fine Wine, David Schildknecht has written an excellent review of my book Beauty and the Yeast: A Philosophy of Wine, Life, and Love. Accurate, thoughtful and thought provoking. Just what a review should be. #wine
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Wine Trade Associations: Reduce the wine industry's carbon emissions - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/4MM3JxEx2J via @Change
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Reduce the wine industry's carbon emissions
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I discuss the contretemps between @OliverStyles and @tomcwark about the high prices of cult wines in this blog post. There is a real issue here about whether a #wine can be a benchmark if few can sample it.
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My Three Quarks column isn't about wine this month. It's about philosophy and why it has lost its way. https://t.co/WUKSS7zJj2
3quarksdaily.com
by Dwight Furrow
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If the anti-terroirists wish to advance their cause they need better advocates. The article in Pix by Zach Gebelle is just one logical fallacy after another. https://t.co/xaPxtNB1kZ
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Indeed and I really miss it
so refreshingly pre-#pandemic
@DwightFurrow @nathanmyhrvold @Alinea
#Chicago pegged on my reawakening travel plans https://t.co/4llv1677Ki
#modernistcuisine #cuisine #food #art #restaurants #gula
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Wine and music pairing is a fascinating new approach to appreciating wine. Clark Smith and I have written an ebook on the topic. It's available from most ebook vendors. https://t.co/iDDDG2vpQa
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Although we love our traditions, the Grand Crus system isn't a good way of marking quality in the contemporary wine world. Wine today is too dynamic to be hemmed in by classification systems weighed down by the bureaucracy of politically-charged rankings.
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Mike Veseth, The Wine Economist, has a thought-provoking post on the possibility of new world Grand Crus. The occasion was a zoom event devoted to the subject hosted by Lauren Catena of Argentina’s…
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Remember that article from 2018 in Lancet that there was no safe level of drinking? Apparently, the analysis was flawed. Moral: Never take a single study to the bank. https://t.co/qUIYbbAqyg
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A headline-grabbing study published by The Lancet three years ago claiming that there is “no ‘safe’ level of alcohol consumption” has been shown to be flawed.
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My wine and food aesthetics blog Edible Arts turns 10 years old today!
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Today is the 10th Anniversary of Edible Arts. My first post was on 10/5/2011. 2,442 posts later, with 413, 138 page views, it’s still going strong. I am eternally grateful for my readers who …
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A very accessible on various #wine technologies and their effect on flavor from @jamiegoode
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A spinning cone column used to remove alcohol. The best definition I’ve heard yet for ‘quality’ is fitness for purpose. So if someone asks, is this a good
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An interesting post on the possibility of new world Grand Crus from @MikeVeseth Does the concept make sense outside of Burgundy/Bordeaux? #wine
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Here is my second post summarizing the important work of microbiologist Manuel Malfeito-Ferreira on the synthetic/holistic nature of #wine tasting. We don't sense individual compounds but relations between compounds.
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"Prices of Beaujolais Nouveau set to soar." I don't know what to say about this aside from asking who would pay that much for "Nouveau". #wine
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A useful judgment about wine doesn't strive for objectivity (i.e. the absence of personal preference) but instead strives for a subjective judgment of the right sort—one that is about one’s perception of the #wine, not something else.
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Interesting piece on how tasting menu #wine pairings work from the wine directors' perspective.
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Wine directors share their best practices for tasting menu pairings, from managing guest expectations to maintaining profitability…
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