DOES BIODYNAMIC FARMING MAKE THE DIFFERENCE TO THE WINE?
I just read a very interesting article from CLAIRE HU about biodynamic farming and wine quality. For me, no question about it, biodynamic DOES make the difference, but of course, it has to be linked to a few factors at least as much important:
- terroir (without a real wine terroir, biodynamic will never be enough)
- [...]
BIOFACH 2012: SPOTLIGHT ON OLIVE OIL
BIOFACH, the world leading exhibition in organic products and services, puts the spotlight on the olive tree’s liquid gold…
The Olive Oil Bar and Olive Oil Award have been key features of the World Organic Trade Fair BioFach for years – the next time is from 15–18 February 2012 in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg. [...]
PORTUGAL (6) – VINHO VERDE ‘AFROS’
I discovered this fantastic wine house thanks to my good friend Bert Horstman from the Dutch wine importer HEISTERKAMP. He said not much about it, just wanting to know my opinion about 2 wines, a white and a red VINHO VERDE… I remembered at once a talk we had a few weeks before about organic/biodynamic [...]
EUROPE’S BIODYNAMIC WINE MAKERS SWIM AGAINST THE TIDES
A nice article from MARCEL MICHELSON for REUTERS LIFE!
(Reuters Life!) – In the shadow of the big Vinexpo wine and spirits industry fair here last month, a group of international wine-makers gathered to promote wines that go against the mega-commercial trend to sell ever larger uniform quantities to big markets such as the United States [...]
625 ORGANIC SPANISH WINES IN GUIDE ‘VINUM NATURE’
The first guide on Spanish organic/biodynamic wines (including cavas), ‘VINUM NATURE’, has been released on the market and was presented to the public on May 10th in the Fenavin wine fair in Ciudad Real. The guide offers 70 pages full of practical information about 625 wines made by 157 Spanish bodegas, about the exceptional quality [...]
