by Sondra Barrett | Nov 3, 2010 | Blog
Last week, Jo Diaz, Executive Director of Petite Sirah Advocacy Group, gave a few us a wonderful opportunity to taste 16 petite sirahs. We were a small group of 5 women enjoying this vast array of wines. What was so surprising to me, two of us rated and experienced...
by Sondra Barrett | Oct 30, 2010 | Blog
Never before has your vote counted as much as now. You may be unhappy with what’s happening in this country. You may be pleased and optimistic with the amount of progress made in the last two years. You may be nervous and fearful about the extreme views and...
by Sondra Barrett | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog, Shaping Taste
Jo Diaz named me that a few months ago. It is so appropriate and so unconventional, dare I say ‘that’s me.?’ What is a wine shaman, you may ask. My definition – its someone who looks into wine for hidden messages and mysterious molecular...
by Sondra Barrett | Oct 16, 2010 | Blog
On Wednesday October 13, the 33 miners were freed from their months long imprisonment below the surface of the earth. They were greeted as heroes, looking good in spite of their hardships. That night, I with Jo and Jose Diaz and Chinois restaurant co-owner Debby...
by Sondra Barrett | Sep 16, 2010 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured
I am often asked, “What are these pictures, what do they show?” One answer is the hidden universe in wine. My other answers go from wine Rorschach to the artistic expression of the winemaker or the land. No matter which interpretation, these photographs of wine...
by Sondra Barrett | Sep 15, 2010 | Blog, Featured
2010 may well be the strangest weather/whether year yet. Whether the grapes will ripen on time, before the rains come. Whether the yield will be greatly diminished because of the sun burned raisined grapes with our bounce of 100 degree weather. Whether this will be...
