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The World of the Italian Meal

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · 8d

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 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 …

Terroir as Interpretation: Why Preserving Place is Always a Style Choice

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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…

Eight Ways People Judge Wine

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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…

Roast the Algorithms; Then the Vegetables

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 25d

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.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 26d

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.

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · 26d

No “fast kimchi.” No frictionless cuisine. Cook like a citizen, not a user. #food #foodsky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/18/r...

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…

Tasty is the Floor, Not the Review

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · 27d

We don’t need fewer words for wine—we need better ones. #wine #WineSky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/09/16/t...

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…

Heraclitus in the Glass: Why the Most Interesting Wines are Unruly

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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…

Watch Out for Natty-Washing

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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…

Is It a Tragedy When We Drink a Wine Before It’s Time?

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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…

What the Hell is Data-driven Cooking?

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

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…

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…

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 27

"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

Wine Isn't Suffering from Elitism

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yes. That is interesting

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

Artisanswiss @artisanswiss.bsky.social · Aug 26

Someone else who gets it. jimsilver.substack.com/p/wine-isnt-...

It is suffering from people trying to sell us on Egalitarianism

jimsilver.substack.com

Food’s Fragility is an Aesthetic Gift

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 22

Stop judging dinner by museum rules. #food #foodsky foodandwineaesthetics.com/2025/08/21/f...

Food is ephemeral. You taste it, and in moments—sometimes even before the thought of tasting registers—it vanishes, leaving only memory and an empty plate. Unlike a painting that hangs for centurie…

Yarrow vs. Beckett on Wine and Food Pairing

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 19

I tasted a lot of Frontenac a few years ago when traveling through the upper Midwest. If was dreadful unless made into a fortified wine. But maybe they have learned to deal with the acidity.

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm sorry that happened. If legal action isn't possible, public shaming seems to be the only alternative.

Artisanswiss @artisanswiss.bsky.social · Aug 17

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.

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 12

But clinical synesthesia i would imagine functions differently

Wine and Music: 5 Classic Pairings

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is some good evidence in sensory science studies that music can shape how a wine is perceived and it is at least to some degree independent of preferences. If you find a wine disgusting music won't help much but the effect seems independent of musical taste.

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

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…

The Food Revolution in the Age of the Algorithm

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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

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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Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 5

How is the campaign going so far? Are you winning?

Will AI Generate the Rebirth of Wine Traditions?

Dwight Furrow @dfurrow.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

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 …