Dwight Furrow
@dfurrow.bsky.social
Professor, Writer, philosophy of food and wine, Edible Arts blog, author of Beauty and the Yeast: A Philosophy of Wine, Life, and Love , and American Foodie: Taste, Art, and the Cultural Revolution
Blog: https://foodandwineaesthetics.com/
Blog: https://foodandwineaesthetics.com/
Natural wine isn’t a fairy tale about “no intervention.” It’s a moral line in the sand about how far we let industrial and commercial logic shape what’s in the glass. Arguing about definitions misses the real fight over practice and quality. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/11/18/d...
Do We Need Another Debate about “Natural?”
I thought we were past worrying about how to define “natural wine” but apparently it’s still an issue. In World of Fine Wine, Benjamin Lewin (MW) argues that the terms “natural,”“low intervention”…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Natural wine isn’t a fairy tale about “no intervention.” It’s a moral line in the sand about how far we let industrial and commercial logic shape what’s in the glass. Arguing about definitions misses the real fight over practice and quality. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/11/18/d...
We don’t just taste vineyards; we taste decisions. Conventions make wine intelligible. Curiosity keeps it alive. #wine #WineSky
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The Hiding-in-Plain-Sight Ligaments of Wine Culture
I don’t know that there is another human sub-culture as bound to habit and convention as the wine community. The wine styles available today—red, white, sparkling, rosé, skin contact whites, and fo…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We don’t just taste vineyards; we taste decisions. Conventions make wine intelligible. Curiosity keeps it alive. #wine #WineSky
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Is the lack of young wine writers the problem or the symptom? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/11/04/i...
Is Wine’s “Old People Problem” a Young Writer’s Problem?
Peter Pharos recently wrote an article entitled Wine’s Old People Problem, about the wine industry’s current dilemma (which seems a lot longer-lived than “current” suggests. We’ve been talking abou…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Is the lack of young wine writers the problem or the symptom? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/11/04/i...
Remember the 2000s oak-and-extraction hangover? The backlash gave us “low-intervention” dogma. Time to move past the binary. I map a middle path where most great wines are actually made. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/28/t...
The Technology vs. Terroir False Dilemma
Debates that oppose “technology” to “terroir” treat winemaking as a zero-sum game in which each technological intervention diminishes site expression. This framing misdescribes how quality decision…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Remember the 2000s oak-and-extraction hangover? The backlash gave us “low-intervention” dogma. Time to move past the binary. I map a middle path where most great wines are actually made. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/28/t...
Wine’s greatness is place, not polish. Can Michelin tell the difference? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/21/t...
The Michelin Guide Will Review Wine?
Last week brought the curious announcement that the Michelin Guide plans to start reviewing wine. It’s not clear how this will work given that the Michelin Guide already owns The Wine Advocate, th…
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October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wine’s greatness is place, not polish. Can Michelin tell the difference? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/21/t...
Wine changes. Memory fades. Reviews keep the conversation alive. Read why tasting notes are the postal service of taste. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/08/w...
Why Detailed Wine Reviews Matter to the Wine Community
If you want a community, you need a conversation; if you want a conversation, you need a shared record; and if you want a shared record in wine, you need detailed reviews—the kind that actually say…
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October 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wine changes. Memory fades. Reviews keep the conversation alive. Read why tasting notes are the postal service of taste. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/08/w...
The Italian meal isn’t just a feast—it’s a philosophy of time. Seven courses that teach patience, proportion, and the art of ripeness. When a culture puts taste before productivity, even lunch becomes an ethics. #food #FoodSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/02/t...
The World of the Italian Meal
The traditional Italian meal—the all-day affair with (at least) seven courses—has always fascinated me because it is not just a meal but a way of organizing time and space around a sensibility. It …
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October 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Italian meal isn’t just a feast—it’s a philosophy of time. Seven courses that teach patience, proportion, and the art of ripeness. When a culture puts taste before productivity, even lunch becomes an ethics. #food #FoodSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/10/02/t...
Non-intervention is a myth. A vineyard offers tendencies and resistances; the cellar organizes them into a voice. The question isn’t “intervene or not?” It’s: which articulation of this place are you willing to own? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/30/t...
Terroir as Interpretation: Why Preserving Place is Always a Style Choice
Let’s retire the pious fiction that the winemaker who “lets the site speak” abstains from style, as if terroir were a shy woodland creature spooked by the faintest human intention. Terroir is not a…
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October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Non-intervention is a myth. A vineyard offers tendencies and resistances; the cellar organizes them into a voice. The question isn’t “intervene or not?” It’s: which articulation of this place are you willing to own? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/30/t...
Tired of “95 points!”? Meet the other 7 ways people judge wine and what they get right and what they can't see. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/23/e...
Eight Ways People Judge Wine
Recently I posted an essay on my theory of wine tasting which evaluates wine by how its structure creates movement, texture, and tension over time, connecting those felt dynamics to character and p…
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September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Tired of “95 points!”? Meet the other 7 ways people judge wine and what they get right and what they can't see. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/23/e...
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This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
No “fast kimchi.” No frictionless cuisine. Cook like a citizen, not a user. #food #foodsky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/18/r...
Roast the Algorithms; Then the Vegetables
We live under the regime of instrumental reason—the worldview that treats everything as a means to something else, preferably something quantifiable. What is the value of a tomato? Depends: yield p…
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September 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No “fast kimchi.” No frictionless cuisine. Cook like a citizen, not a user. #food #foodsky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/18/r...
We don’t need fewer words for wine—we need better ones. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/16/t...
Tasty is the Floor, Not the Review
I’m not going to link to it or name the writer since I’m not into calling people out for minor transgressions. But I recently read an article from a wine writer entitled “Why Tasty is the Only Tast…
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September 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We don’t need fewer words for wine—we need better ones. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/16/t...
My theory of wine tasting: aromas aren’t properties; they’re performances. Taste isn’t a checklist—it’s choreography in the glass. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/09/h...
Heraclitus in the Glass: Why the Most Interesting Wines are Unruly
Originally posted at Three Quarks Daily Wine tasting is a great seducer for those with an analytic cast of mind. No other beverage has attracted such elaborate taxonomies: geographical classificati…
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September 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My theory of wine tasting: aromas aren’t properties; they’re performances. Taste isn’t a checklist—it’s choreography in the glass. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/09/h...
When Big Wine discovers its inner pét-nat, you know ‘natural’ is about to get spin-cycled. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/04/w...
Watch Out for Natty-Washing
There is plenty of evidence that natural wines are maintaining steady sales despite the overall drop the wine industry is experiencing. I found this anecdote from Jeremy Parzen to be particularly i…
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September 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
When Big Wine discovers its inner pét-nat, you know ‘natural’ is about to get spin-cycled. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/04/w...
Wine isn’t a museum piece. It’s for the table. Stop mourning the bottle you didn’t age and enjoy the one in your glass. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/02/i...
Is It a Tragedy When We Drink a Wine Before It’s Time?
Most premium wine is consumed before it hits peak quality. Estimates suggest upward of 90% of wine in the U.S. is opened within a week of purchase. This includes no small share of bottles that wou…
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September 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wine isn’t a museum piece. It’s for the table. Stop mourning the bottle you didn’t age and enjoy the one in your glass. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/02/i...
Pairing tables ≠ cuisine. Texture, timing, and order can flip the script. I break down where computational gastronomy helps—and where taste pushes back. #food #FoodSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/28/w...
What the Hell is Data-driven Cooking?
There is a lot of hype among some sectors of the food industry about data-driven cooking (aka computational gastronomy). It is the practice of using structured food data (recipes, ingredient chemi…
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August 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Pairing tables ≠ cuisine. Texture, timing, and order can flip the script. I break down where computational gastronomy helps—and where taste pushes back. #food #FoodSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/28/w...
"Artists create; winemakers respond." That's a cute slogan. But it's also wrong. If Spiral Jetty counts as art, why not Sherry? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/26/w...
Winemaking and Artmaking
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen this argument in print but it has really become standard fare. Tim James in World of Fine Wine used his recall of a fine Amontillado tasting to proclaim that regard…
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August 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Artists create; winemakers respond." That's a cute slogan. But it's also wrong. If Spiral Jetty counts as art, why not Sherry? #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/26/w...
One of the best pieces I've seen in awhile. It absolutely nails the value of wine and the limits of wine as a commodity.
August 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One of the best pieces I've seen in awhile. It absolutely nails the value of wine and the limits of wine as a commodity.
Wine and food pairing is about probabilities, not pronouncements. Somms aren’t priests; they’re guides and pairing is an adventure, not a catechism, more like disciplined improvisation. #Wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/19/y...
Yarrow vs. Beckett on Wine and Food Pairing
Well, thankfully, it wasn’t exactly the Hatfields and McCoys, but there was some heat generated in the Decanter-hosted debate between wine/food pairing expert Fiona Beckett and wine blogger Alder Y…
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August 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wine and food pairing is about probabilities, not pronouncements. Somms aren’t priests; they’re guides and pairing is an adventure, not a catechism, more like disciplined improvisation. #Wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/19/y...
I'm sorry that happened. If legal action isn't possible, public shaming seems to be the only alternative.
I’m stunned. A wine business in Switzerland just clean-jerked seven of my published pieces and attributed them to someone else on their website. I’m feeling violated.
August 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm sorry that happened. If legal action isn't possible, public shaming seems to be the only alternative.
Champagne that dances, Margaux that dreams, Grange that slams, Sassicaia that soars, Único that shapeshifts. Press play, pour. #wine #winesky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/12/w...
Wine and Music: 5 Classic Pairings
The thing I miss most about no longer doing wine reviews on this blog is the wine and music pairing that accompanied each review. The book I wrote with Clark Smith on wine and music pairing was a b…
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August 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Champagne that dances, Margaux that dreams, Grange that slams, Sassicaia that soars, Único that shapeshifts. Press play, pour. #wine #winesky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/12/w...
Silicon Valley wants AI to correct my knife skills. I’ve been cooking for 50 years—I think I’ll survive without algorithmic guidance. #food #foodsky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/07/t...
The Food Revolution in the Age of the Algorithm
This post piggybacks on my post earlier in the week about the plight of French winemakers as well as the post A Glass Against the Machine from several weeks ago. I am apparently obsessed with this …
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August 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Silicon Valley wants AI to correct my knife skills. I’ve been cooking for 50 years—I think I’ll survive without algorithmic guidance. #food #foodsky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/07/t...
AI can code your website. It can’t tend your vines.
Why the future may belong to the stubborn, the muddy-booted, the unoptimized. #wine #winesky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/05/w...
Why the future may belong to the stubborn, the muddy-booted, the unoptimized. #wine #winesky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/05/w...
Will AI Generate the Rebirth of Wine Traditions?
In her article “Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Make French Wine Anymore,” Josephine de La Bruyère chronicles the plight of French winemakers, many of whom hail from families with centuries-old ties to …
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August 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
AI can code your website. It can’t tend your vines.
Why the future may belong to the stubborn, the muddy-booted, the unoptimized. #wine #winesky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/05/w...
Why the future may belong to the stubborn, the muddy-booted, the unoptimized. #wine #winesky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/05/w...
Omnivores are the new snobs although I suppose they are by definition imperfect since it's no longer clear where to draw the boundaries that snobbery requires.
August 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Omnivores are the new snobs although I suppose they are by definition imperfect since it's no longer clear where to draw the boundaries that snobbery requires.