Opening Up

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.  It softens and release its many volatile components into the air, and our nose.  A lot more happens, of...

Life and Death

Wandering in a vineyard this time of year, where the vines are grarly or straight up in a line… No leaves upon them and many shorn of their wavy canes, The vineyard looks dead. No signs of life. Until the mustard blossoms. And the green grasses appear. and when...

Once Upon a Time – Inglenook

I’m so glad to see Inglenook back in the news thanks to Coppola. Why? Years ago when I first started photographing wine through the microscope, when Inglenook made great wine and still ‘lived’ in their original buildings, their PR director hired me...
Transformation

Transformation

What does transformation mean?  Changing form or shape.  This picture is named “transformation” and reveals fermenting chardonnay.  It could be called “Jewels in Space.” The Grape and Wine are perfect metaphors and examples of transformation...