Who are we?

Posted on May 15, 2012 in Blog, Health, Reflections | 0 comments I often feel that I have a dual identity – one is the photographer of wine and everything else under the microscope – searching for beauty.  The other is the person who has been a health educator/scientist for decades, looking for what helps people  feel better – mind or body or spirit. It has been a confusing endeavor trying to define to others, as well as to myself, what...
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Transformation

Posted on May 14, 2012 in Art and Wine, Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Reflections, Sacred mysteries, Spirituality, Wine Shaman | 0 comments Life Illuminated! In wine’s life story, grape juice is transformed into spirited wine upon fermentation of the sugars to alcohol and bubbles.  Transformation only occurs here with outside help – the microscopic yeasts.  Well, there’s other outside help, the sacred igniter. From my photographer’s perspective, when looking at juice compared to wine, the material under the...
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Wine’s Inner Terroir

Posted on May 10, 2012 in Blog, Come to your senses, Featured, Reflections, Shaping Taste, Wine, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 2 comments The French use a term “terroir” to talk about a wine’s expression of place.  They say that only certain wines express terroir which means they express the land and its temperament. We experience terroir  as sensory qualities of  a wine’s nature, its personality and spirit. What influences ‘terroir’ the land where the grapes are grown the qualities of the...
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A language of taste

Posted on May 2, 2012 in Art and Science, Blog, Come to your senses, Edibles, Featured, Sacred Geometry, Shaping Taste, Wine | 0 comments You are sitting with a few friends sharing a bottle of wine and the wine ‘geek’ throws out a bunch of descriptive terms that are a foreign language to you.  Steely, tobacco, bold, stealth.  You, like me, could feel at a total loss to describe verbally what you are tasting and smelling in the glass of wine.  Do you ever wonder where our words for the various tastes come from? I...
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