On Jan 18, 7:00*pm, " >
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> On Jan 16, 2:21*pm, Short Cellar > wrote:
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> > There are a few interesting books floating around now about the nexus
> > of wine and philosophy: "Question of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine"
> > edited by Barry Smith, and "Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on
> > Thinking and Drinking" edited by Fritz Allhoff.
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> > Barry Smith has some interesting things to say about whether wines
> > have an "objective" taste, or whether are experiences of them are
> > purely subjective. I find this pretty heady stuff given how much
> > authority people now give to wine experts, especially those wielding
> > numerical scales. It seems people really want an authority figure.
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> > Anyway, my idle thoughts on this topic are hewww.lawandstyle.ca/shortcellar
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> > I wonder what other people think.
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> > Matthew
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> I would like to react to the following:
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> - ...His main concern is whether the experience of wine is subjective
> and unique to each individual, or whether the wine has an objective
> taste that can be shared among people who know what to look for. Can
> anyone be "right" when giving judgment about a wine?
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> Concerning the question, "Can anyone be 'right' when giving judgment
> about a wine?", I would say 'of course' just as anyone can be wrong
> about their judgment. *As far as I am concerned, an art form cannot
> exist once people being start believing that there is no such thing as
> an error.
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> Getting back to that statement, I feel that the key phrase is
> "...people who know what to look for."
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> Only an authority can not only show you what to look for, but also
> where to look for it. *And also only an authority can tell you what
> matters (or matters more) and doesn't matter (or matters less).
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> Also, only an authority can explain what an ideal aesthetic experience
> is and how far and in what way the wine you are tasting is from the
> ideal.
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> I believe that if an aesthetic experience is evaluated using a
> systematic procedure, you become aware of things you never noticed
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If the judgment of wine has anything to do with aesthetics, the
following recent article says:

- Normative sciences, such as logic and aesthetics, seek to establish
the right way of doing things.

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=13547&t=The+moral+of+politics%3A+'T he+lesser+of+two+evils'