If you want to know if a block of land in France is being farmed organically, now you can look it up online! Filters are provided for field crops, forage crops, vegetables, fruit, grapes, perfume/medicinals and finally, others (which includes olives).

I note that our vineyards are correctly identified as being organic... :-)

#Farming #Organics #OrganicFarming #France #FruitProduction #VegetableProduction #OliveProduction #Wine #Grapes #OrganicWine #Bio

https://www.agencebio.org/cartobio/

Organic Vineyard Area Worldwide, 2021 #organic #organicwine #viticulture #vineyards

Curious about the difference between organic, low intervention, and natural wine? Here's a look at how and why we use these terms, and why Italy is producing so many.

#organic #organicwine #wine #naturalwine #italianwine

https://americadomani.com/news/uncork-italys-natural-wine-phenomenon/

https://www.gastrodelirio.it/fabio-riccio/i-migliori-vini-naturali/2022/12/
#vinonaturale #organicwine

Biodynamic Vineyard Area Worldwide. As a share of their vineyard area, Switzerland and Austria are way ahead. In absolute hectares, France is a distant number 1; #biodynamic #biodynamie #wine #organic #biodynamicwine #organicwine

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season with family and friends! Cheers to a cozy season! #napavalleywine #holidaywine #organicwine #winebythelake #champagneandcaviar #tahoe #fallenleaflake #instawine

#Carignan (Carinyena or Samsó in Catalonia) is an #autochthonous, very old Spanish variety that starts its journey in Aragon / Catalonia and becomes wildly adopted throughout the Med.

Fast forward several centuries later and its cultivation is so endemic that vignerons are actively encouraged to please plant something else under the EU “vine pull scheme” regulations.

Which brings me to this potent 100% organic Carinyena of 2020 made by Celler Aixalà Alcait, which smells older than it tastes with its tertiary hints of stewed cherries, fresh tobacco, recently vacated leather sofa + dry-cured ham left behind on a plate.

On the palate perhaps not quite there yet although it would make a happy pairing it with something roasted and dripping in fat. It really needs to hide in a cellar for the next four years to reach its full potential.

#Wine #Priorat #Catalonia #OrganicWine #Epicure #WineTasting #CatalanWines

https://www.gastrodelirio.it/fabio-riccio/au-bon-secours-sebastien-dervieux/2022/11/ #vinonaturale #vinonaturalefrancia #babass #vino #organicwine

We’ve got just the thing to keep you warm on a snowy night! #acremagnum #acrecabernetsauvignon #napacab #cabernetsauvignon #winespectator #napavalley #singlevineyard #organicwine #acreatthelake #acreinthemountains #instawine

Last night we were talking about wines made in clay vessels.

This is the bodega of Vins del Tros, at Vilalba dels Arcs, Terra Alta. I went to visit them when oenologist Joan Ramon Bada was still in charge. He took me to his lab and we did a blind taste of clay fermented vs inox fermented wines; those fermented in #clay vessels stood out for the clean smooth roundness and depth.

Clay also seems to have a thermodynamic effect as a natural temperature regulator and the shape of the vessels is ideal for the fermentative process as it rises and falls in an elliptical motion.

Vins dels Tros was one of the first to bring back the almost extinct #Morenillo grape variety (more about this later) and are increasingly using indigenous yeast. All their wines are #ecological and made with minimal intervention.

#wine #organicwine #TerraAlta #Catalonia #fermentation

Ending a beautiful day by sharing around a bottle of L'Anit from Celler Frisach, Terra Alta. 100% full bodied organic Carinyena extracted from grapes picked from 80 year old vines. This, the sunset, the silence, the cool clean air. All is well on the western front.

#wine #organic# #organicwine #catalonia

#Muni bianco un bel #vinonaturale dal #veneto, godibilissimo e ricco di emozioni. #Organicwine #naturalwine

heading to Carmel By the Sea next weekend for a look-see + anniversary.

suggestions for worker owned / co-op / (mostly) organic or “fair trade“ shops, spas, restaurants, wine bars or wineries much appreciated!

#California #carmel_by_the_sea #workerscoops #cooperative #collective #fairtrade #organicfood #organicwine

At #chilledandtannin we are all about #bodaciouswinewithaconscience and the idea that great value wine shouldn’t cost the Earth (literally) 🌍

So here is a LIGHTBULB MOMENT 💡

AOC CHINON, AMPOULE DOMAINE BERTRAND AND VINCENT MARCHESSEAU, LOIRE 2020
£15-

Organic + low intervention

Tastes like: Candied red and black fruit. Green Pepper. Liquorice. Mineral. Round tannins.

#chilledandtannin #chinon #organicwine #lowinterventionwine