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Wine, the Brain and Memory: A Brief Guide to Our Sensory Experience
Last week I had the pleasure, as I thankfully often do in this line of work, of tasting a glass of a truly beautiful wine. It was a premier cru Chablis, a wine known, according to our tasting notes, for its crisp acidity, freshness, minerality and aromas of pear, lemon and...
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Blind Tastings: Bias Busting or Strip Poker?
For many, there has always been a specific image and a pompous connotation attached to blind tastings. Scenes of an older gentleman sniffing a long stemmed glass next to a brown-bagged bottle and then confidently claiming, “New leather, tobacco, cassis and two day old morel...
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