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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Shaping Wine…

Posted on Aug 2, 2011 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Marketing innovations, Shaping Taste, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 2 comments 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 different choices. Granted our experience of wine is subjective yet in my own experience  capturing wine’s expression under the...
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Universe in Wine

Posted on Sep 16, 2010 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Wine Shaman | 0 comments 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 under the microscope reveal a mysterious display of wine’s molecular collaborations. There are at least a few hundred...
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