by Sondra Barrett | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste, Wine
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...
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 | Aug 2, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
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...
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 | Apr 21, 2011 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
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...
