taste


Readers of this blog, and those who have heard me speak at conferences, will know that my relationship with the language wine people use is complicated. There are often reasons for the words we use, but those reasons are not always self-evident. Nor do we do a very good job of making this known, and explaining what those words are intended to convey. In many ways, and many times, wine language is coterminous with, but not equal to,...

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Analytically, one of the things that intrigues me most from our recent stint of fieldwork is the role of taste. I was interested to see the various roles taste plays in the harvest and selection. This was a fortuitous find, as the project is, after all, about taste. During our too-few days in Austria, taste kept cropping up in unexpected ways. Specifically, it often was used as an indicator of quality, both in picking and in selecting...

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