A jewel of a wine
Posted on Jul 21, 2012 in Art and Wine, Blog, Come to your senses, Featured, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 2 comments
When I open a bottle of wine to photograph I always wonder what will it look like. Will it look like how I experienced it – smooth or harsh, as example.
And then there are times when a winery gives me samples to photograph and I have had no tasting experience of the wine, then what? Are these less biased pictures?
As a scientist in the lab I knew well that we influence our results. Sure, statistics tells us whether the result is mere chance or something more meaningful. So I’ve wondered whether I impact the photographs. I certainly do by what I choose to show you, a client, my friends.
Yet always I search for beauty. And when I got back into this business after leaving it for medical science and teaching, I discovered that what I call beautiful someone else ignores as bland.
Is there universal beauty or is there only our individual interpretation that matters? Is a sunset always an emotionally positive aesthetic?
I am sure I will spend the rest of my years trying to figure it out. In the meantime I will share some ‘bathing beauties’ of wine I have uncovered.
I didn’t taste this wine but its my most current BFF wine portrait – 
Rhys, of course, Humans are supposed to have this experience – who else is here to enjoy it the way we can. don’t think monkeys or mice are so captivated.
and sometimes the flashy or even slow brooding is what’s perfect at the time.
“A Jewel of a Wine”…that phrase captures for me the essence of a great wine experience. This is ‘grape juice” refined and polished to the point that all of your senses are captivated and charmed. There is the feeling of imbibing the essence of a jewel and a lofty, giddy, almost forbidden sense. Mere humans aren’t supposed to have this experience, are they? I think all wines are jewels of varying degrees, and like jewels, even the finest can be ignored in favor of something flashy and less refined.