According to Esther Mobley, wine writer of the San Francisco Chronicle, and other speakers at the 2021 Professional Wine Writers Symposium, the language of wine is broken. Accusations of classism, Eurocentrism, colonialism, racism, sexism and being exclusionary are levelled against it. This paper will review the difficulties of describing wine in English, the movements between differing styles of describing wine since the early twentieth century and the above accusations. It will also consider whether the language of wine is, in fact, broken
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It is widely held that smells and flavors are impossible to put into words. In this paper we test th...
This study delves into the intricacies of the language used in wine reviews, focusing on the adoptio...
Professional wine tasters use a technical language as a functional tool to describe and evaluate sen...
Within the accepted daily language used to describe wine is a type of social exclusion, an absence o...
Language is thoroughly bound up with wine in myriad ways, and the drinking of wine is very often acc...
Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the...
Effective communication with consumers underpins growth in wine knowledge that, in turn, contributes...
Talking about odors and flavors is difficult for most people, yet experts appear to be able to conve...
Wine, this simple word, denotes a complex subject with a great historical legacy, notions of place a...
International audienceTraditions, brotherhoods, wines of terroir, vintage wines…so many expressions ...
Wine’s context exceeds the story of pleasure and natural enchantment as it is also laden with confli...
Wine tasting notes can be considered a multifunctional genre within the discourse of wine writing. T...
With reference to 64 common descriptors of the sensory properties of wine (e.g., tannic, full-bodied...
Le présent article s’intéresse à la relation entre savoir et discours, à la façon dont la communauté...
It is widely held that smells and flavors are impossible to put into words. In this paper we test th...
This study delves into the intricacies of the language used in wine reviews, focusing on the adoptio...
Professional wine tasters use a technical language as a functional tool to describe and evaluate sen...