by Sondra Barrett | Nov 6, 2016 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured
Wines are often deemed hearty when they are full-bodied, rich and dense. And when you look inside, some wines reveal HEARTS as their major expression. Is this expressing the heart and soul of the winemaker? The first heart I uncovered in wine was hiding in a 2001...
by Sondra Barrett | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Spirituality
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...
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 | Sep 16, 2010 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured
I am often asked, “What are these pictures, what do they show?” One answer is the hidden universe in wine. My other answers go from wine Rorschach to the artistic expression of the winemaker or the land. No matter which interpretation, these photographs of wine...
