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The Greater Senses Wine Blog has a new post:

http://greatersenses.chriskaplonski.com/cairanne-sans-soufre-ajoute-2019-camille-cayran-rhone-france/

Tell your friends. Or your enemies, if you don't friends. Or even random strangers.

Cairanne Sans Soufre Ajoute 2019 Camille Cayran, Rhône, France - The Greater Senses Wine Blog Wine tasting as if all the senses mattered - review of Cairanne Sans Soufre Ajoute 2019 Camille Cayran, Rhône, France

LSH's new project. Spread the word!
http://greatersenses.chriskaplonski.com/

The Greater Senses – Wine as if all the senses mattered.

(‘Cause they do.) Introducing a new way to think about and experience and maybe even enjoy wine. Covid and its aftermath has brought new attention to a simple fact: Not everyone has a great sense of smell. In fact, some of us – for whatever reasons – can barely smell most things. There’s been discussion of this in the wine world, which is heavily dependent on having a good ability to detect aromas, but until now, no one has actually taken the next logical step.

Here it is. An approach to wine that doesn’t think the nose is the only sensory instrument there is. Wine tasting using all of the senses. Well, except maybe hearing. (There’s a post on that.)

Run by Chris Kaplonski – ex-Cambridge academic, wine-industry trained, and with a lousy, if not quite non-existent sense of smell. Updated twice weekly (Sunday-ish and Wednesday-ish), focusing mostly on reviews, with other bits as the mood hits or seems called for.

The Greater Senses Wine Blog - Wine as if all the senses mattered. Wine as if all the senses mattered.

Once again, LSH hijacks AE's page to announce a new, erm, announcement on behalf of Insects & Wine.

An updated update, or new news – Insects and wine! Posted on 20th November 202020th November 2020 by ChrisAn updated update, or new news After a process that included some sole-searching (Me: ‘What was that I just stepped on?’ Charlotte: ‘Was it an insect? Is it edible?  Let me see!  LET ME SEE!!!’), wine being drunk in the name of researc...

Insects & Wine is momentarily coopting AE's page to announce:

We are back! (Sort of) – Insects and wine! Posted on 9th November 20209th November 2020 by ChrisWe are back! (Sort of) We have news.  Whether it is good news or bad depends on your view on edible insects and sustainability. We like to think it is good news, but that really depends on who is reading this. I’d presume you are a fan of edibl...

Shall we play a game?

This is taken from a very popular wine website.

How many errors can *you* find? AE is at three, so far...

LSH finally stops watching cat (and dog!) videos long enough to finish a blog post:

Natural consequences: lessons from Geographical Indications - Anthroenology A research project on the intersection of sustainability, the sensual experiences of consumption and the redefinition of taste via wine.

Wise advice from the 19th century vigneron Louis Jadot:

There are four things to do when tasting a wine. First look at it and say “what a lovely colour”. Then smell and say “what a beautiful bouquet”. Thirdly, drink it and say “what a good wine”. And lastly, look at your glass and remark, with pathos, “what a pity it is empty”

(Quoted in an old Decanter column by Michael Broadbent.)

After months of quiet, there's finally a new blogpost over on Anthroenology:

Necessary Luxuries: Wine (and more) in the time of the coronavirus

https://bit.ly/2VAJVDL

(And yes, for the anthros out there, Agamben does get name-checked!)

Necessary Luxuries: Wine (and more) in the time of the coronavirus - Anthroenology A research project on the intersection of sustainability, the sensual experiences of consumption and the redefinition of taste via wine.

First post on AE in a bit too long, but, (to quote a friend): Hey, ho. Go read about sustainability vs veganism here:

Sustainability vs Veganism - Anthroenology A research project on the intersection of sustainability, the sensual experiences of consumption and the redefinition of taste via wine.

The only reasonable response to the fact that 'Utopia regained: nature and the taste of terroir' is out!

The new phonebook is here (The Jerk) For the moment you get excited about whatever makes you "somebody." (From the 1979 movie The Jerk).

A new blog post on something LSH has been thinking about for a while: the use of categories / labels in wine, and do we need them?

The Wine Spectre - Anthroenology A research project on the intersection of sustainability, the sensual experiences of consumption and the redefinition of taste via wine.