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Tips on how to like any wine
Is that even possible? To like any wine you drink? One answer could be, well, if you’d had a lot to drink all wines taste good. Yet another answer is to know how to improve the situation and your experience of any wine. Some experts will tell you to carefully match...
Divine wine designs
I am always intrigued with the designs a wine will express on the microscope slide. Considering that there are hundreds of different molecules in a wine, some wines express amazing complexity while others reveal profound simplicity. Years ago I defined a 'wine...
Divine design
Consider that all our molecules must have a very specific geometry, shape and electrical charge in order to work. Nobel prize winner Dr. Christian de Duve named one of the essential qualities of biological molecules - chemical complementarity. What this means is that...
Wine Shaping Me
I have a unique perspective on wine – the inner views – I thought I’d offer to you some insights I’ve been fortunate enough to uncover. I hadn’t started my career as a photographer, I was a medical scientist/biochemist photographing human cells, looking for clues to...
Malolactic fermentation
To soften wine and add complexity, a common wine making practice, especially for reds is “secondary" or malolactic fermentation. After primary fermentation is complete (sugar going to alcohol), usually specific bacteria are added to convert harsh hard aggressive malic...
Why the Grape?
What is so unique about the grape that it is the only fruit used to craft vintage wines called ‘bottled poetry?’ One of the answers relates to its chemistry, another to its elemental nature and spiritual purpose. The Grape's Molecular Legacies First a grape’s...
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