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 –...
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...
