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Do We All Experience The Same Taste When Drinking Wine?
For most of us drinking wine is a pleasant experience when we taste the various characteristics of it. Sometimes it’s fruity, sometimes it has flowery aromas or even chocolate, mushrooms and vanilla. At the same time it can also challenge our tactile perception, as it can be tannic, sour or very sweet, causing our mouth…
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Does Wine Get Better With Aging?
I’m not old ….. I’m vintage A classic myth in the world of wine is that wines improve with age. But what is actually aging of wine and what makes aged-wine better than non-aged wine? There are of course two crucial elements in this question: aging and improving. So first of all it’s good to…
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Can We Taste The Terroir In Champagne?
A mystical belief about Champagne, as with wines in general, is the idea one can taste the terroir in a wine. A first issue then is of course what is the meaning of the concept “terroir”. The problem is then that by trying to define this concept, the describing words each have again their own…
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Is There Truth In Sparkling Wine?
‘In vino veritas’ is of course a well known and widely quoted Latin phrase that literally means ‘In wine there is truth’. Comparable quotes are found across all kinds of cultures and in all kinds of languages. So do the French have ‘Ce que le sobre tient au cœur est sur la langue du buveur’,…
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What Is The Raison D’être Of Champagne?
As a vinosopher my life is a true journey. Every experience pops up its own existential questions which challenge me to think about the mystery of life. One of those moments was the last 15th of the month, the day of each month my wife and I toast on our marriage with a sparkling glass…
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Quality of Champagne from a Philosophical Perspective
When we speak about Champagne we almost always tell each other about the supreme quality of this elixir. But what do we actually mean if we speak about quality? What IS the quality of Champagne? Maybe philosophy can give us the answer. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (Margaret Wolfe Hungerford) If we…
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