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Wine and Intention
Can we, with our thoughts or other unmeasurable manipulation, change the taste of a wine? Well, I won't tell you how but it has been done Perhaps it was magic 3 glasses of the same 2008 cabernet sauvignon were treated 'mysteriously' with...
Wine and the Mind
A few months ago I met with winemaker Pete Hoffmann who explored with me the potential that the energy of mental focus directed by crystals can change our pleasure of wine. I was an open skeptic willing to be open to the experience. We sat in Graton's Wildwood Cafe...
Wine’s Inner Terroir
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...
In the Beginning
After writing Secrets of the Cells, I was so intrigued that I needed to explore more the amazing inner world of our cells and was struck even more with their surprising intelligence. I was also surprised by the lack of scientific evidence on its creation - the...
Memories of Wine
In creating a presentation on my journey into wine, I was remembering my first days with the winemakers at Sterling Vineyards - Theo Rosenbrand and Bill Dyer - falling in love with all things wine-related - the cellar, the vineyards, the sharing ideas and their...
Whole Hearted BioDynamic Wines
Wines are often deemed hearty when they are full-bodied, rich and dense. And when you look inside, some wines reveal HEARTS as their major expression. Is this expressing the heart and soul of the winemaker? The first heart I uncovered in wine was hiding in a 2001...
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