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Monday, January 20, 2025

Upcoming Unified Session: Exploring the Regenerative Ag Toolbox for Viticulture

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For the first time, the grapegrowing track at Unified Wine & Grape Symposium this year features two prominent organic wine growers: Gre...

Galloni's Top 100 Features Five Wines From U.S. Organic Vines

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 #13: 2021 DuMOL Pinot Noir MacIntyre #18: 2021 Tablas Creek Vineyard Esprit de Tablas #20: 2021 Ridge Vineyards Lytton Springs #33: 2...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Central Coast Veteran Winemaker Alisa Jacobson Launches First Organically Grown "Alcohol Removed" Wine

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  Alisa Jacobson, a veteran winemaker working on the Central Coast, is releasing her first "alcohol removed" wine from certified o...
Monday, January 13, 2025

First Time Unified Has an Organic Keynoter! Unified to Feature Alecia Moore (AKA PINK), Winemaker and Two Wolves Wine Founder

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In case you hadn't heard, I believe this is the first time Unified has featured an organic vintner for its keynote speaker! SACRAMENTO, ...
Friday, January 10, 2025

SLO Coast's First Certified Biodynamic Vineyard! Gina and Mike Giugni's Vineyard (formerly Bassi) Is Now Officially Demeter Certified "Sunny Spot Vineyards"

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At the end of August, Gina and Mikey Guigni’s 32 acre vineyard on the SLO Coast became Demeter certified, making it the first vineyard in th...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Author Picks - Best of Wine Journalism in 2024

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Most of the time, I don't write for this blog–I write articles for wine business industry publications. I thought you might be intereste...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

California's Premier Organic Farming Event Coming Up: Ecofarm Is January 22-25, 2025

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Every year at Asilomar in the lovely town of Pacific Grove on the Central Coast, Ecofarm , the greatest gathering of organic farmers in the ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Santa Cruz Mountains' Organic Icon Prudy Foxx Featured on Local TV!

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One of my favorite organic vineyard managers, Prudy Foxx, is featured on local TV thanks to Monique Soltani and her Wine Oh! tv show. Prudy ...
Monday, January 6, 2025

58 Percent of Younger and Multicultural Consumers Prefer Organic, Major New Wine Market Council Study Reports

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One of the most spectacular market research studies of the year, in my humble opinion, was How to Better Engage Young Adults and Multicultur...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

What You Read: Top Ten Posts in 2024

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It's always interesting to see what posts readers read most in a given year. I just tallied up what posts got the most page views and he...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Expanding Choices for Organically Grown Sparkling Wines for Every Occasion and Budget

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It's the time of the year for sparkling. If you're not a Champagne purist, see what California has to offer. Here are some of my fun...

Paso Robles' Organic Fine Wine Wave: Big Companies–Treasury Wine Estate, Gallo, Riboli and O'Neill–All Buying Wineries with Certified Organic Vines

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Something interesting is happening on California's Central Coast, and it seems to be passing under the radar of a lot of folks. We know ...

The Official Press Release: Robert Hall Achieves Regenerative Organic Certification

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DEC 5, 2024 O’NEILL VINTNERS & DISTILLERS EARNS REGENERATIVE ORGANIC CERTIFICATION O’Neill Vint­ners & Dis­tillers, a B Corp Cer­ti­...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Booker Vineyard's New Estate Extension Becomes Regenerative Organic Certified – Booker Now Certified on All 89 Planted Acres

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Plus... Iconic Willow Creek District Winery Also Earns 2024 Environmental Steward Award from Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance by Booker Dec...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Can Regenerative Organic Farming Pencil Out? Study Provides State-of-the-Art Data and Demonstrates Dramatic Improvements in Wine Quality and Yields

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It's been exciting to visit Robert Hall Winery in Paso Robles to meet with GM Caine Thompson and learn, see and taste the results of the...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Monarch Butterfly Proposed For Listing Under The US Endangered Species Act

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PORTLAND, Ore.; December 10, 2024—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species unde...
Monday, December 9, 2024

Napa Valley Wine Library | Cabernets from Historic Alluvial Fans of the Mayacamas

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It felt like a very august gathering–with six super prestigious winemakers in the house, and the "house" being Inglenook, which is...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Wine Spectator Top 100 Features 7 Wines from Slow Wine Guide | Including 4 U.S. Wines from Organic Vines

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My Thanksgiving wine is from this Pinot from Roserock, which was #6 on the Wine Spectator Top 100 List.  The notes below come from Wine Spec...