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The persistence of a wine on your palate, even after you’ve swallowed, is called its length or finish. The better the wine, the longer the length.
Karen MacNeil • The Wine Bible
Taste is a double-edged sword. Because it is ephemeral, you’re untouchable if you have it. Competitors won’t be able to copy it—what is there to copy? You can expand products as rapidly as MSCHF has without any negative consequences. But taste can also disappear quickly. If the artists collective loses touch with what makes them special, their adva... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good vis... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
of feeling.” Taste goes beyond superficial observation, beyond identifying something as “cool.” Taste requires experiencing the creation in its entirety and evaluating one’s own authentic emotional response to it, parsing its effect. (Taste is not passive; it requires effort.) Montesquieu, who was a baron and a judge in addition to a public intelle
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Samples
Matt Mower • 3 cards
Taste
Joe Maceda • 29 cards
The sweet taste buds in dogs respond to a chemical called furaneol.
Stanley Coren • Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know
Taste
Packy McCormick • 1 card
Developing taste
Mounica Veggalam • 2 cards