by Sondra Barrett | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste, Wine
Wine lovers talk about how a wine opens up once its let out of the bottle. When we pour wine into our glass and swirl, we’re helping the wine open up. It softens and release its many volatile components into the air, and our nose. A lot more happens, of...
by Sondra Barrett | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Spirituality
Life Illuminated! In wine’s life story, grape juice is transformed into spirited wine upon fermentation of the sugars to alcohol and bubbles. Transformation only occurs here with outside help – the microscopic yeasts. Well, there’s other outside...
by Sondra Barrett | Aug 17, 2015 | Blog, Featured
INSIDE WINE – Beauty In the bottle. 5 WAYS TO REPLENISH YOUR ENERGY. SHAPING TASTE: Instinctual Intelligence – where do our words for taste come from? HEALING CHALLENGES- What can we do?
by Sondra Barrett | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells
Many years ago when I used to do cancer research I was surprised when people didn’t always fit into their statistical outcomes – some lived way beyond what their biology predicted, others who ‘should have lived’ based on the biology...
by Sondra Barrett | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog, Featured
Have you ever wondered why the grape is the only fruit that gives us elixirs so heavenly they are called divine? Why not kiwi or pineapple, apple or date wines? What is so unique about the grape that it has had a cult like following since ancient times? The grape and...
by Sondra Barrett | Jun 29, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Wine
Many years ago I was brought into the world of wine through my photography with a microscope. As artist-in-residence for Sterling Vineyards I had the amazing opportunity to work with the winemakers as they asked questions like – do wines look different when...
