Opening Up

Posted on Mar 7, 2012 in Art and Wine, Blog, Featured, Marketing innovations, Shaping Taste, Wine, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 0 comments We wine lovers talk about how a wine opens up once its let out of the bottle. When we pour wine into our glass and swirl, we’re helping the wine open up and release its many volatile components into the air, and our nose.  A lot more happens, of course, as the wine in our glass opens up. We may, too. And yet, those of us who are patient or lucky enough to own several bottles of a specific...
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Art in Wine

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Marketing innovations, Wine, Wine Tasting | 0 comments Enjoy wine as never before - Experience wine with all of your senses.   View the spirit and textural expressions along with their molecular integrations and congregations.  The shapes within wine create a spectacular experience of the wine’s architectural design and beauty. Author, scientist and photographer Sondra Barrett offers takes you on the journey into the wisdom of our senses...
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Shaping Wine…

Posted on Aug 2, 2011 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Marketing innovations, Shaping Taste, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 2 comments If wine had an image to represent its character, style or personality – what kind of wine do you think would be represented by the above image? I often fantasize that if wine bottles had pictures of what’s inside the bottle, we the consumer might make different choices. Granted our experience of wine is subjective yet in my own experience  capturing wine’s expression under...
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Why Wine

Posted on May 22, 2011 in Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Marketing innovations, Reflections, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 0 comments Today I watched a video of the first Art & Soul of Wine (2005), WINESPIRIT sponsored with Leslie Rudd at the RUDD Estate. I had been away from the wine world for two decades when I discovered WineSpirit co-founded by the 2 Davids – Freed and White. My first time visiting them in Napa Valley was a beautiful autumn Sunday facing a vineyard, talking, connecting, sharing stories and...
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