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 | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog, Cell Wisdom, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells, Spirituality
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 –...
by Sondra Barrett | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog, Featured, 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...
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 | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog, Featured
A Way In When I first started teaching the mysteries of our cells, I asked my students to complete the following statements: I am . . . I want . . . I have . . . How would you complete these? Self-identity We have multiple “markers” of our identity. We have a name, a...
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...
