Wine competitions, and many web sites, involve summing assessors’ scores into a consensus “average” score for each wine. However, as an exam...

I recently published a post ( Has the WHO lost its way regarding alcohol? ) pointing out that what is recognized to be the best form of scie...

A year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) changed its attitude towards alcohol consumption, which it said it would recommend reducing ...

I think that I have the answer to the title question, and that answer appalls me. The World Health Organization (WHO) used to accept the ide...

Social media sites like Vivino , Delectable and Cellar-Tracker collate wine ratings from their users, and Wine-Searcher does the same thi...

Way back in 1976 there was a comparative tasting of several fancy (and expensive) American and French wines, in which the US wines acquitted...

I do not usually do this sort of thing, but this time I am going to name names. Let me explain. I used to teach university students about ...

Every time we look at the viticulture news these days there is something about the current problems with grape harvests, whether it be droug...

Everyone knows the expression in vino veritas (in wine there is truth), which (in one form or another) seems to date all the way back to th...