by Sondra Barrett | Aug 2, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
If wine had an image to represent its character, style or personality – what kind of wine do you think would be represented by the above image? I often fantasize that if wine bottles had pictures of what’s inside the bottle, we the consumer might make...
by Sondra Barrett | Jul 20, 2011 | Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Shaping Taste
Jo Diaz named me the wine shaman when we first met, I owned up to that name yet had not defined it. Until now. What is a wine shaman? Well, first know that a shaman is One who sees into things, sees energy, images, stories from the other side of knowing. A shaman...
by Sondra Barrett | Jul 17, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
Those of us who enjoy wine can experience how a cab may improve with age, or a bottle opened yesterday has fallen apart. Our mouth and nose give us clues whether we will like the wine – maybe. Well I happen to photograph changes in wine as it evolves into...
by Sondra Barrett | Jun 24, 2011 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
Does wine have a soul? Isn’t it transformed grape juice? Does it pick up soul along with spirit? When I look at art or listen to a piece of music, some of it touches my soul. When I first began photographing cells, molecules, then wine under the scope My soul...
by Sondra Barrett | Apr 21, 2011 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
I never knew the man in person. I did know his wines and when I traveled throughout the US I was always glad to see them on the menu. They were dependable. I could count on them to be good. I was saddened to hear of his passing. And I always remember the portrait I...
by Sondra Barrett | Apr 10, 2011 | Blog, Secrets of Your Cells, Shaping Taste
All my words and pictures about the art and shapes in wine may strike you as odd. However there is some scientific grounding in the idea of the shape of molecules. They have a complementarity meaning they must fit another molecule in order to exert their effects. In...
