New Class to celebrate WSETs 50th anniversary Book your place for Wine tasting basics with WSET SAT and the biodynamic calendar Join us during WSETs 50th anniversary celebration week for a brand [...]
Reasons to choose certified organic wine – reply to Irish Times article A recent article by John Wilson in the Irish Times – ‘organic wine- is it worth the label it’s [...]
Chateau Feely celebrates 10 years organic and 8 years biodynamic Château Feely celebrates ten years fully certified organic and 8 years of biodynamic and natural wine making. Sean and Caro Feely [...]
Wine and Spirit – Soul rather than distilled What makes a wine great? A soulful inquiry into wine and the meaning of life and new year’s wishes What is it that makes our lives worth [...]
Global glyphosate statistics cause for alarm Herbicide, specifically glyphosate use, grew more than 10 times in 20 years. In 20 years from 1995 to 2014 total global glyphosate use (agricultural [...]
Debate: Is the use of copper in organic farming ecological? Some winegrowers say organic farming is not ecological because the fungicide used by organic growers, copper, is toxic. Headlines like: [...]
Chateau Latour certified organic showing that even the greatest wines are proud to say ‘certified organic’ + cost of organic certification versus the premium for being certified [...]
Sulfites in wine – what it is and why you should care Sulfites are added to wine as a preservative. Sulphur dioxide (sulfites) is used in the wine as a preservative and as a cleaning agent [...]
501 cow horn silica biodynamic preparation The 501 cow horn silica biodynamic preparation is one of the two key preparations that must be used for a farm to be certified biodynamic. It is used to [...]
What is biodynamics? And Homage to Pierre Masson Biodynamics is a way of farming that respects life forces. The father of biodynamics was Rudolf Steiner who gave the Agriculture course [...]
