Organic Wines Uncorked

From Wine Searcher  today comes news of one of Napa's leading organic vineyard experts on his family vines and wines. Neal farms approxi...

A new market research study shows that confusion about wine choices continues to dominate the market - and no wonder. It is almost impossibl...

California's ag community is blessed in many ways...there's the soil science group under Kate Scow...the pesticide use reporting law...

Think of an organic or biodynamic brand and you're likely to picture a small, semi-profitable, all estate winery run by an overeducated ...

WIN SOME The big news today is that Bayer agreed to settle many of its Roundup lawsuits for $10 billion. According to the New York Times ,...

One of my pet peeves is the lack of education in the wine industry on how to become organic or biodynamic. My first encounter with U.C. Da...

This week, CCOF sponsored a joint webinar with Demeter USA, the biodynamic certifier, to help organic growers learn about biodynamics. CCOF ...

Steve Beckmen of Beckmen Vineyards has gone natural - as in wine, that is. Growing biodynamic wine grapes since 2002, Beckmen has produc...

This week, my YouTube feed offered up this sobering 30 min. documentary on a commonly used insecticide called imidacloprid. It is toxic to...

Scientists studying milkweed , to better understand how pesticides affect declining monarch butterfly populations found some disturbing resu...

Thanks to Craig Camp for putting this in words. https://winecampblog.com/journal/2020/6/8/two-conferences-two-biodynamics

I called Martin Pohl, at Beaver Creek Vineyards up in Middletown yesterday, to find him a little down on life. "We have been on the ph...

For awhile, I was binge watching wine webinars. With the debut of VirtualWineEvents.com , it was easy. Who could resist getting up clo...

We now know that pandemic has launched a revolution in the way fine wine is being marketed and sold. But just as chance favors the prep...

March 30 - yes, just a month and a week ago - I posted that we were finally living in the Golden Age of Online Tastings . Suddenly, with Zoo...

So many videos take a technical approach to trying to explain biodynamic. Who was Rudolph Steiner? What are the preps? Is farming by the m...

In the era of the pandemic, wineries are waking up to the possibilities of digital marketing. Here's my new article (featured in the...

I missed this study when it first came out, but am glad to share it this week since it's an important chapter in the medical detective n...

Pandemic? Don't panic. You can still move the climate change needle towards the good earth citizen end of the dial, avoid in store shopp...

The most brilliant scientists of our generation who are focused on pesticides and environmental health rarely give public lectures. They spe...

A definition for natural wine? For years, wine drinkers have been asking the question, "What is a natural wine?" There have ...

Congratulations, Wine Industry! You're Making Online Tasting Experiences and Recording Them as Videos! It's 2020, and for years ma...

Stuck at home? Want a video break that doesn't include corona virus? Check out the regenerative ag that underlies biodynamic wine grape ...

It's not often that I say, "BUY THIS," but at the Oregon Wine Trail tasting yesterday in SF I have to admit I was really wowe...

At Unified Wine Grape Symposium this year, I attended the panel on Weed Control and the big buzz at the end of the 90 minutes panel seemed t...

Slide from Glenn McGourty presentation Last week I visited Russell Ranch at U.C. Davis for soil health presentations , including those b...

Slow Wine Guide 2020 kicked off its annual tour yesterday in San Francisco with a sold out tasting at Pier 27. The event consisted mainly...

Happy to announce that the 2020 edition of Slow Wine Guide is now out. As a Senior Editor for California, I wrote about 60 of the winery l...