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 – premier grand cru classé in Pauillac in the Medoc and first of the premier grand cru classés to be certified organic- are proud to share that they are now 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 [...]
Pesticides distort the taste of wine A french scientist and a chef have published a book about their experiment to discover how pesticides distort the taste of wine Do pesticides distort [...]
‘Happily we don’t drink from the streams,’ and other crazy stuff ‘Happily we don’t drink from the streams,’ – said our local agriculture representative [...]
