Scientist-photographer Dr. Sondra Barrett has used the light of the microscope to open vistas to hidden realms in nature for three decades. The first to photograph wine as art through the microscope, she has won competitions from Nikon and Olympus.

Since her time as artist-in-residence at Sterling Vineyards in the Napa Valley, she has consulted for numerous wineries photographing wines at all stages and ages. A special event for The Wine Spectator provided her with outstanding images from 40 years in the life of Cabernet Sauvignon. Here she had the good fortune to taste and photograph the legendary 1941 Inglenook Cask Cabernet Sauvignon.

Her multi-media productions have been presented to the Wine Industry Technical Symposium, Society of Wine Educators, American Wine Exposition and the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The latter event complemented Dr. Barrett’s “Inner Space”museum exhibit. The Wine Brats’ Wine Raves also showcased her work as has WineSpirit.

These photographs have been popular in consumer and trade publications appearing in OMNI, Scientific American, Wines and Vines, the San Francisco Chronicle, Napa Valley Register and Wine News. Her original ideas on wine have been published in Proceedings of the Wine Industry Technical Symposium and Practical Winery. This work was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle wine section in 2003.

A noted author and speaker in medicine and health, Dr. Barrett has produced a relaxation CD Molecular Messengers of the Heart, a video Super Charge Your Energy, and delivered keynote addresses and presentations for the University of California, Planetree, Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Blue Cross, Apple Computers, American Wine Expo, and The Exploratorium.

Dr. Barrett brings a unique perspective to the science and art of wine and health. She has taught in the University of California system at San Francisco and Berkeley and has been on the faculty at several San Francisco Bay area graduate schools – California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, University of Creation Spirituality( now Wisdom University), and New College.

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Selected Published Articles

Dance as Healing Communication
An inner view with Anna Halprin
Published in Healing Health Care Communications 1993

Complementary Self-Care Strategies
for Healthy Aging
In Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, Fall 1993 – Self-care and Older Adults

Psychoneuroimmunology-
The Bridge Between Science and Spirit
Chapter in Silver Threads, editors: B. Kane, J. Millay, D. Brown. Praeger, 1993.

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Press about Dr. Barrett's work

Drinking and looking at wine

Napa Vintages  on a molecular level.

Sondra Barrett found God through a microscope