Transformation

Posted on May 14, 2012 in Art and Wine, Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Reflections, Sacred mysteries, Spirituality, Wine Shaman | 0 comments 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 help, the sacred igniter. From my photographer’s perspective, when looking at juice compared to wine, the material under the...
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Here’s to Jess Jackson

Posted on Apr 21, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Reflections, Shaping Taste, Wine Shaman | 0 comments I never knew the man in person.  I did know his wines and when I traveled throughout the US I was always glad to see them on the menu.  They were dependable.  I could count on them to be good. I was saddened to hear of his passing. And I always remember the portrait I took of one of his first ever chardonnays – the 1983 KJ chardonnay.  I enjoyed the wine and the image then  and I post...
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