Wine is art we can drink

This wine gave me butterflies in all the right places. What visions do your favorite wines express? Photographs of wine through a polarizing microscope offer unique and compelling ways to learn about and enjoy wine. They also capture a glimpse into the story of one...
Transformation

Transformation

What does transformation mean?  Changing form or shape.  This picture is named “transformation” and reveals fermenting chardonnay.  It could be called “Jewels in Space.” The Grape and Wine are perfect metaphors and examples of transformation...

Spirits of the Vine

My love for wine came first from its inner expression.  I had no intention to be following the life of wine for more than 25 years.  Yet in that time I have been privy to the life and spirit of wines from 45 years old to a day old (not yet wine). The visual...

Universe in Wine

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...

Harvest begins – late

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...