Winegrowing

Grape Vine Flowering In this post Caro Feely, winegrower, author and certified wine educator, describes grape vine flowering in detail with the aid of photos. It’s late May / early June and [...]

In this time of biodiversity loss it is even more important to keep areas of wilderness and conservation Isabella Tree’s book Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm has experienced massive [...]

Proliferation of environmental terms in wine – confusion for consumers Standard question when I walk into a wine store or restaurant. ‘Do you have any organic wine?’ ‘Yes; [...]

Great Wine Capitals – International Conference wine, environment and society The conference on wine, environment and society on 5 November 2019, created by the Great Wine Capitals team with [...]

Is organic more expensive than chemically farmed wine? On farm visits at Chateau Feely we are often asked about the cost of organic versus chemically farmed wine. Yes, on the shelf on average [...]

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 [...]

Press Release 4 February 2019 Chateau Feely launches Organic and Biodynamic Education Trail Château Feely enhances its commitment to the environment with an organic and biodynamic education trail [...]

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: [...]

Pesticides in conventional wine – signature aromas and flavours This is an extension to my original post Seralini’s book ‘Le Gout des Pesticides’ the taste of pesticides. [...]