Wine’s Inner Terroir

Posted on May 10, 2012 in Blog, Come to your senses, Featured, Reflections, Shaping Taste, Wine, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 2 comments Wine portrait: Pinot Noir 2008 hope & grace. The French use a term “terroir” to talk about a wine’s expression of place.  They say that only certain wines express terroir which means they express the land and its temperament. We experience terroir  as sensory qualities of  a wine’s nature, its personality and spirit. What influences ‘terroir’ the land...
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Jewels of our Vines

Posted on Jan 31, 2012 in Art and Wine, Blog, Featured, Reflections, Wine, Wine Shaman | 0 comments It is almost 30 years ago that I started my journey into the inner beauty of wine. It began at Sterling Vineyards when they had an artist-in-residence program and I was fortunate to be selected with two years to prepare. I was guided by the winemaker Theo Rosenbrand who would ask questions - what would a wine look like that had been grown in the valley compared to on the side of Diamond...
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