by Sondra Barrett | Nov 20, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste, Wine
I am always intrigued with the designs a wine will express on the microscope slide. Considering that there are hundreds of different molecules in a wine, some wines express amazing complexity while others reveal profound simplicity. Years ago I defined a ‘wine...
by Sondra Barrett | Nov 16, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells, Spirituality
Consider that all our molecules must have a very specific geometry, shape and electrical charge in order to work. Nobel prize winner Dr. Christian de Duve named one of the essential qualities of biological molecules – chemical complementarity. What this means...
by Sondra Barrett | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, Featured, Wine
What is so unique about the grape that it is the only fruit used to craft vintage wines called ‘bottled poetry?’ One of the answers relates to its chemistry, another to its elemental nature and spiritual purpose. The Grape’s Molecular Legacies First a grape’s...
by Sondra Barrett | Nov 6, 2011 | Blog, Featured, Wine
If a picture IS worth 1000 words, suppose these images were on a wine label, which wine would you buy first? These are all cabernet/Bordeaux blends. A B or C A is the wine at the top, B on the left, C on the right I have always thought the micro wine portraits would...
by Sondra Barrett | Oct 12, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Wine
Enjoy wine as never before – Experience wine with all of your senses. View the spirit and textural expressions along with their molecular integrations and congregations. The shapes within wine create a spectacular experience of the wine’s architectural...
by Sondra Barrett | Sep 24, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Cell Wisdom, Featured, Spirituality
We are not our DNA but without it we wouldn’t exist. Each set of instructions that tell our cells which proteins to construct is embedded in a 3-lettered code held within the strands of our DNA. Those spiral strands of DNA in one person’s cells, if unwound and...
