by Sondra Barrett | Feb 5, 2017 | Blog, Cell Wisdom, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells
There have been times when I’ve thought about whether human cells are intelligent or not. Sometimes I thought they’re being smart was simply a metaphor. I’ve studied them, written about them, have a book about discovering their intelligence, but...
by Sondra Barrett | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste, Wine
The idea of perceiving wine as shapes is not a new one. What is new is capturing the shapes in wine through the microscope. British wine writer and critic, Pat Simon, former wine consultant to the World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Agency, and Master of Wine...
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 | 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 –...
