From the Jenny & Francois blog, here's an interview with Simone Roveglia of Cento Filari.
Simone Roveglia of Cento Filari from Jenny & François Selections on Vimeo .
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International organic wine fair FIVE ( Feria Internacional del Vino Ecologico) will be held online this year from June 21st to June 30th. The onsite fair with now be biennial. Registration on the site www.five-bio.com/ begins on May 24th.
…"movement" is really blurry and hard to define. It appeared online in the April 5 issue of the Organic Wine Journal.
Fabio's winery is Vinos Ambiz, in Spain, which his blog describes as "Producers of natural, organic, healthful, sustainable wine." We therefore can assume that Fabio is serious and genuine when it comes to natural wine, but he also is honest and humble enough to concede that "there's a whole grey area" when it comes to …
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Organic Wine Journal's Editor Adam Morganstern wrote about this last year on Huffington Post :
The most important wine region to New Yorkers isn't Bordeaux, Tuscany or the Mosel. It's New Jersey, where almost all the fine wine they drink is warehoused before being delivered to local stores and restaurants. An amendment before the New York Senate would end this practice, and require wines to be stored in-state for 48 hours. Small wholesalers are up in …
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Organic Wine Journal's Editor Adam Morganstern wrote about this last year on Huffington Post :
The most important wine region to New Yorkers isn't Bordeaux, Tuscany or the Mosel. It's New Jersey, where almost all the fine wine they drink is warehoused before being delivered to local stores and restaurants. An amendment before the New York Senate would end this practice, and require wines to be stored in-state for 48 hours. Small wholesalers are up in …
- Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto: Vin de Napkin: Mock Outrage
- McDuff's Food & Wine Trail: TDF 2010 Stage 11: Sisteron to Bourg-lès-Valence
- CorkSavvy: It's the Law
- 4488: A Ridge Blog: Wine
- CellarBlog: Emerging Wine Regions: Greece
- Spittoon: Visiting Lungarotti Winery, Italy
…have to artisanal craft and to the environment: when you put it that way I think organic wins every time. Go to a mass produced winery like Yellowtail and then go to the Monteraponi Vineyard and tell me you don't see a difference.
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Dani Rozman is a wine consultant and contributor to Organic Wine Journal. Photographs courtesy of Daniel Krieger .
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RAW is one of the most exciting, and certainly the largest, collection of fine, natural, organic and biodynamic wine artisans ever to come together in the capital. The two-day celebration of some of the best wine talent in the world offers visitors the chance to sample over 1000 different wines from more than 200 growers. As well as tastings, the show features talks from the world's leading experts and a selection of incredible food by renowned artisan food producers and restaurants. The independent …
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"Wine and the Environment" is the third book by Britt…
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What is that "organic taste" that, apparently, most organic wines suffer from? The writer from examiner.com doesn't go into detail, but thank God that Grgich Hills avoids it:
Looking for a good organic wine that doesn't have the "organic" taste? Grgich Hills has some of the very best selections of wines that come from certified organic & Biodynamic vineyards. They won't make you feel guilty for spending a little more on vino and are great alone or with certain foods.
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From The Guardian :
Forty Hall vineyard is the brainchild of Sarah Vaughan-Roberts, a Hackney resident who studied viticulture and became determined to create an organic vineyard in London. Eventually, she discovered the Jacobean mansion of Forty Hall, owned by Enfield council. Its organic farm, run by Capel Manor, the local horticultural college, had some underused, south-facing slopes with, crucially, light, gravelly soils, unlike the unsuitable heavy clays of most …