Wine

Xavier Planty,head of Château Guiraud, was interviewed by The Drinks Business about becoming the first Grand Cru Sauternes to carry the French AB label for being organic. He discusses the benefits he started seeing in his vineyards after farming organically, but what do they title the article? “French Organic Wine Quality Mixed” This was based...

From Decanter: Over 200 UK restaurants are offering natural wines as part of Real Wine Month. ‘A few years ago natural wines weren’t even a ripple in the collective consciousness of the UK restaurant scene,’ said Doug Wregg of importer Les Caves de Pyrene, organiser of both the Real Wine Fair and Real Wine Month....

From Alice Feiring: So, welcome a new group: Les Vins S.A.I.N.S. (Les Vins Sans Intrant Ni Sulphites). Those in the group are all French with one Italian. Included in this group are at least 10 vignerons with wines that I like/love. Future members will be admitted only if the board is unanimous. There will be...

So says Business BCN: It has been a long time since wineries like Albert i Noya (now in its fourth generation) introduced organic farming to its vineyards. In the late ‘70’s, when everyone was into other things, this visionary winery was beginning to produce its first wines from their organically grown vineyards. On this long...

A portuguese Biodynamic wine available at Appellation Wine & Spirits: The grapes are grown in the appellation Lima Valley within Vinho Verde. The estate sits on a bed of granitic earth in a bio-rich zone where eucalyptus, acacia, and chestnut orchards are plentiful. The vines grow on trees in a pergola-trained system. I find their...

An organic wine competition being held in Germany, organized by Martin Darting and Gisela Wüstinger of WINE System is now accepting submissions. For more information go to www.organicwineaward.eu.

Winemaker Tony Coturri has always argued that the wine world would change overnight if wineries were required to list everything on the label that went into the final product. Coturri winery would have “just grapes” of course. New York Magazine did a piece about this issue: Randall Grahm made news four years ago when he...

Steve Heimoff wrote a piece, Even a “natural” winemaker can’t define “natural wine,” in response to one of our posts by winemaker Fabio Bartolomei: Fabio’s last two lists–“It does/doesn’t contain the following” and “I did/didn’t do these things to it”–are the best short course in winemaker interventions I’ve ever seen. I salute his honesty and...

An organic wine tasting is being held in Vienna at the Sofitel Hotel on May 11-12. There will be over 200 wines from winemakers in Austria, France, Italy, Spain and Romania. More into at www.weinbio.at.

Another of our series of dinners with Amali: Monday, April 30, 2012, 6:30 PM For Your Wines Only: The Viticulture of Vangelis Gerovassiliou Five Courses, 75 PP (exclusive of tax and gratuity) Wine & Spirits – Top Newcomer Award 2012: “the main dining room feels like an upscale bistro in Kolonaki…here they take an American...

There is a May 1st tasting of organic wines produced in Alsace and Jura organized by OPABA (Orga­ni­sa­tion Pro­fes­sion­nelle de l’Agriculture Bio­lo­gique en Alsace). 47 producers are attending: Tues­day 1 May 2012 11 AM to 6 PM Confré­r...