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Philosophy and Wine: is Robert Parker the Übermensch?
wrote:
> If the judgment of wine has anything to do with aesthetics, the
> following recent article says:
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> - Normative sciences, such as logic and aesthetics, seek to establish
> the right way of doing things.
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> http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=13547&t=The+moral+of+politics%3A+'T he+lesser+of+two+evils'
I am writing a response to the various posts you've made. I can agree
with you only insofar as tasting becomes a technical activity.
Winemakers and oenologists taste wine looking for its technical aspects:
acidity, balance, structure, perceived sweetness, etc. These are
judgments about a wine's technical merits and rest on commonly agreed
principles. On the other hand, most wine drinkers taste for aesthetic
reasons in which the terms "right" and "wrong" have no meaning. Someone
who loves White Zinfandels for their sweetnees, lack of acidity and
simplicity are no more or less correct in their judgment than a Burgundy
lover who looks for the smell of flowers, leather and blood in their
wine. Here's a primer for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
Mark Lipton
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