Organic Wines Uncorked: Apps

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Sadly our apps are currently unavailable. (Our app platform provider decided to dissolve their company). The archived descriptions below tell you more about the apps that were available 2014-2015.

We now offer personal wine buying services and wine tour trip planning.

We are now developing a web site that will include all the information that was in the apps - and more wines from more regions in the U.S. and are seeking business partners to help us make the site international. If you are interested, please get in touch.

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You can also LIKE us on Facebook:

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Organically Sonoma on FB
Biodynamic Wine Finder on FB

Additional information is available at Organically Napa and Biodynamic Wine Finder.

ORIGINAL APP DESCRIPTIONS

Explore our 7 apps that connect consumers to more than 500 wines from certified organic or Biodynamic vines in the U.S.

All of the apps ($9.99) are available for Apple and Android devices including phones and tablets. Enjoy learning about these wines and supporting the people who carefully grow grapes without harmful chemicals and make many of America's finest wines.

(All of the wines in the apps are made with sulfites and classified as "Made with Organic Grapes" or "Ingredients: Organic Grapes.")

ORGANICALLY NAPA

Organically Napa: Wine Finder

Features more than 200+ fine wines from certified vines in Napa. Find the country's best Cabs and more from top producers at prices from $20-400.

See More or Buy Now: Apple Android

Organically Napa: A Tasting and Touring Guide

Visit the producers with certified vines in Napa. Just under 10 percent of the county's vineyards are now certified organic or Biodynamic, giving consumers a wide selection of wineries to explore. Interactive features help users select which wineries to visit. Dynamic location-aware mapping guides users to their destinations.

See More or Buy Now: Apple Android

ORGANICALLY SONOMA

Organically Sonoma: Wine Finder

Find more than 200+ fine wines from certified vines in Sonoma, including the best Cabs from the Mayacamas, Sonoma Coast Pinots, Dry Creek Syrah and Zin, and great wines from Sonoma's historic vineyards.

See More or Buy Now: Apple Android

Organically Sonoma: A Tasting and Touring Guide

Visit 45+ top wine producers with certified vines in Sonoma. Interactive features help users select which wineries to visit. Dynamic location-aware mapping guides users to their destinations.

See More or Buy Now: Apple Android

BIODYNAMIC WINES

Biodynamic Wine Finder

Discover Demeter certified wines and wine from Demeter certified Biodynamic vineyards - more than 275 in all! Get info on visiting these wineries from Beaverton, Oregon to Santa Barbara, California.

Learn More or Buy Now: Apple Android

2 comments:

Trina TymkoOctober 24, 2016 at 8:39 AM
I tried to find the Organically Napa app on Android but it does not come up in google play. I am in Canada. Is this app not available in Canada?
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Wines We Cover

We publish information about wines grown from certified organic or Biodynamic vineyards that are generally made with sulfites (which are usually added in small amounts to preserve the wine).

That includes these certification types:

ORGANIC WINE CERTIFICATIONS

• Made with Organic Grapes

Vineyards: certified organic

Vinification: less than 100 ppm of sulfites (i.e. a normal range)

Winery: certified organic facility

Labeling: front or back label

• Ingredients: Organic Grapes

Vineyards: certified organic

Vinification: up to 350 ppm of sulfites (same as for any non organic wine)

Labeling: back label only

BIODYNAMIC® CERTIFICATIONS

• Biodynamic Wine

Vineyards: certified biodynamic

Yeasts: native

Vinification: less than 100 ppm of sulfites; no additives of any kind

Winery: certified biodynamic facility

Labeling: front or back label; Demeter logo may appear

• Made with Biodynamic Grapes

Vineyards: certified biodynamic

Yeasts: native or organic

Vinification: less than 100 ppm of sulfites; limited number of additives permitted

Winery: certified biodynamic facility

Labeling: front or back

Note: unlike organically grown wines, for which there is a category called "Ingredients: Organic Grapes," wines sourced from biodynamic grapes may not make any biodynamic claim on the bottle label. Bottle labeling is reserved for Demeter certified wines only.

SULFITES IN CONTEXT

According to U.C. Davis, the average among all wines in the U.S. (as well as globally) is 80 ppm.

WHAT THE USDA CALLS ORGANIC WINES

Unlike any other nation, the U.S. oddly imposes a no sulfite restriction on wines in order for them to be called Organic Wine. These wines are also called NSA or NAS wines (which stands for "No Sulfites Added" or "No Added Sulfites.")

From the above description, one can see that there are in fact three types of organically grown wines:

1. Organic Wine (less than 15% of all organically grown wine)

2. Made with Organic Grapes

3. Ingredients: Organic Grapes

The vast majority of wines from organic grapes are labeled Made with Organic Grapes, Ingredients: Organic Grapes or are blended with nonorganic grapes and unlabeled.

Fine winemakers do not generally make wine without sulfites and a number of large wine retailers like BevMo do not sell wine in the category of "USDA Organic Wine."

With rare exceptions, this blog does not cover what the USDA calls "Organic Wine."

We are hopeful that the USDA will revise the categorization of organically grown wines and make NSA or NAS wines a category of their own.

This would put the U.S. in accord with the rest of the world, where "Organic Wine" means a wine from certified grapes made within limits on sulfites (generally under 100-150 ppm).

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