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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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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Choice Sonoma County Jan. 14-15

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 in Blog, Come to your senses, Events, Wine, Wine Tasting | 0 comments This coming weekend promises to be beautiful, sunny and perfect for driving the backroads of western and northern Sonoma County. Go explore with Winter...
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Tips on how to like any wine

Posted on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog, Reflections, Sacred mysteries, Shaping Taste, Wine, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 4 comments Is that even possible? To like any wine you drink? One answer could be, well, if you’d had a lot to drink all wines taste good. Yet another answer is to know how to improve the situation and your experience of any wine. Some experts will tell you to carefully match the wine to the food – the weight, complexity, richness or delicacy.  Others will say food doesn’t matter, only the...
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