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...

Shaping Wine…

If wine had an image to represent its character, style or personality – what kind of wine do you think would be represented by the above image? I often fantasize that if wine bottles had pictures of what’s inside the bottle, we the consumer might make...

Shaping Taste

All my words and pictures about the art and shapes in wine may strike you as odd. However there is some scientific grounding in the idea of the shape of molecules.  They have a complementarity meaning they must fit another molecule in order to exert their effects.  In...