by Sondra Barrett | Feb 8, 2017 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured
“Magic’s fundamental conception is identical with that of modern Science; underlying the whole system is a faith… in the order and uniformity of Nature.” Sir James Frazer ~ The Golden Bough. This may look like a mandala… Is...
by Sondra Barrett | Jan 26, 2017 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
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...
by Sondra Barrett | Jan 26, 2017 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste, Wine
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...
by Sondra Barrett | Nov 6, 2016 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured
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...
by Sondra Barrett | Aug 2, 2016 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
There is a sensory experience that some folks have where they SMELL numbers or SEE sounds. Jimi Hendrix HEARD the color blue and physician Richard Cytowic wrote about one of his patients who tasted chicken as angular. Check out his interesting book “The Man...
by Sondra Barrett | Jan 8, 2013 | Art and Science, Blog, Cell Wisdom, Featured
When I take the time to remember that I have been given the gift of the sacred energy of LIFE I can sometimes move out of selfishness and lack to the wholeness of us all. We are all connected by the air we breathe, the roads we share, the food that is harvested, and...
