by Sondra Barrett | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste, Wine
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...
by Sondra Barrett | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured
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...
by Sondra Barrett | Jun 5, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Cell Wisdom, Cultivating Well-being, Featured
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be...
by Sondra Barrett | May 4, 2011 | Blog, Featured
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...
by Sondra Barrett | Nov 14, 2010 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured
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...