Biodynamic farming and winegrowing
Organic farming and winegrowing
Why choose organic?
Reasons to choose certified organic wine
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 [...]
Wine and Spirit – Soul rather than distilled
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 herbicide growth and herbicide in wine
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 [...]
How do you tell if a wine is organic or not?
What is organic farming? Simply put it is: – no chemical fertilisers – no herbicides or chemical weedkiller – no systemic pesticides (no systemic insecticides and no systemic [...]
Copper and environment
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: [...]
Certified organic – Chateau Latour proud to say they are organic
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 [...]
