{"id":5186,"date":"2012-06-26T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:32:31","slug":"is-flavour-a-property-of-the-wine-a-great-article-from-barry-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wine-science\/is-flavour-a-property-of-the-wine-a-great-article-from-barry-smith","title":{"rendered":"Is flavour a property of the wine? A great article from Barry Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v486\/n7403_supp\/pdf\/486S6a.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5195\" title=\"barry smith on flavour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fullscreen-capture-26062012-215316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fullscreen-capture-26062012-215316.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fullscreen-capture-26062012-215316-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fullscreen-capture-26062012-215316-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fullscreen-capture-26062012-215316-400x260.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can, take some time to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v486\/n7403_supp\/pdf\/486S6a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this great article<\/a>\u00a0in a <em>Nature<\/em> supplement by wine-loving philosophy professor Barry Smith. It discusses whether the flavour (or taste) of a wine is the property of the wine or not.<\/p>\n<p>This may seem a slightly self-indulgent academic discussion, but it has important implications for how we approach wine tasting. Is the taste in the wine? Or is it a private experience unique to each taster? Can we really compare our experiences as we drink a bottle of wine together? Or are we operating in different taste worlds?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The central question, then, is this: how should we adjudicate between those who say that flavours depend on molecular compounds, and those who stress the varying perceptions of individual eaters and drinkers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree and disagree with Barry, and in the next few days will post a response to his excellent piece <strong>(You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/is_wine_flavour_objective.htm\" target=\"_blank\">find this here<\/a>)<\/strong>. But I&#8217;d love to know what readers think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can, take some time to read this great article\u00a0in a Nature supplement by wine-loving philosophy professor Barry Smith. It discusses whether the flavour (or taste) of a wine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122,349],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-science","tag-philosophy","tag-wine-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10172,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}