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Why choose organic food? Why choose organic wine? In this post three key reasons in detail to kick off our series on why organic (See my top ten reasons to celebrate supporting organic). 1. For [...]

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 [...]

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. For wine professionals [...]

Vintage 2018 France - a test for organic winegrowers but looking good Harvest is made joyful by good grapes and good people. We had both in 2018. The season started with a complicated spring - [...]

'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 and designated water quality consultant [...]

Saving our Skins Slideshow - second book in Caro Feely's Vineyard Trilogy See the Saving our Skins Slideshow PDF for a quick introduction to Caro Feely's second book in the Feely vineyard Trilogy [...]

Pruning and trimming by hand- another aspect of respect for our biodynamic vines Seán starts his pruning marathon - three months of hard work (what’s required to get through our seven hectares) [...]

Critters at Chateau Feely do it in style Chateau Feely organic and biodynamic farm vineyard and organic gardens are bursting with lusty life. Walk through the vineyard and the grass around your [...]

Is a heatwave - 'canicule' -good for the vines? With temperatures hitting 38 degrees celsius in the day and barely getting below 23 degrees celsius in the night we are melting. But what about the [...]

Litfest 2017 impressions Arriving into Ballymaloe on Friday evening for Litfest weekend I felt wild excitement, like this was something big. Multiple events run concurrently in different rooms at [...]