Organic Wines Uncorked

"No words" was my first response to the news posted on Facebook last night that long time organic movement leader Amigo Bob had di...

A new tractor just hit the market and it promises to revolutionize it with the same savvy as anything on Elon Musk's plate.  For years I...

Farmers could get $3000 a year to stop using the carcinogenic herbicide, the French government said today.  The country had earlier announce...

Is the pandemic driving consumers to drink more organically grown wine? In the UK, the answer is yes. "Waitrose has realised organic wi...

(For those of you who can understand Italian, see the video on Faeebook here .)  On Sunday, Slow Wine officials in Italy announced its new m...

The French health and environmental regulator ANSES said glyphosate will no longer be used in alleys between vines and fruit trees, Reuters ...

Wine documentaries can be notoriously dull.  In general, in a wine doc, what can be filmed? The grapes growing - slowly. The wine tasting - ...

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...