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organic wine

A hot French love affair

19/02/2017 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

Organic wine, the new mistress of the French heartland – beautifully seductive and the hottest girl in town or country. Everybody wants to have her, and to listen to the marketing spiels, everybody’s got her. Whew, what a dame! But French mistresses have a reputation for artifice. I’ve been keen to see for myself to […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels Tagged With: Bagnols-sur-Cèze, bio, biodynamic, Chateauneuf-du-pape, Côtes du Rhône Villages, Côtes du Rhône wines, Domaine Clavel, Domaine Gressac, Domaine Luc Reynaud, Goudargues, Grenache, Laudun-Chusclan Cooperative, Laurence Reto Michelet, natural wines, Orange, organic wine, PRE horses, Syrah

The organic orgy

18/10/2016 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

We’re all going to the organic ball Imagine giving a party where you invite everyone you know and tell them to bring their friends. “Be prepared to strip down to the bare essentials, or less.” A lot of them find a good excuse to stay away, right? But those who show up can’t stop crowing […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: bio, canton Vaud, copper, France, organic wine, trends

Organic wine awards (taste them 30 June)

22/06/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Winners of the Swiss organic (bio) wines awards have been named. Top winners: Best organic white wine: Solaris 2014 | Bioweingut Sitenrain | Meggen | Lucerne Best organic red wine: Iselisberg Cuvée Noir 2013 | Bioweingut Karin und Roland Lenz | Uesslingen | Thurgovie Swiss Organic Winemaker of the Year: Bioweingut Karin und Roland Lenz […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: competition 2015, Karin und Roland Lenz winery, organic wine, Sitenrain winery, Swiss bio

Anti-insecticide wine producer handed light fine

07/04/2014 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Emmanuel Giboulot, who has become a hero in the world of organic wines, was handed a €500 fine by a judge in Dijon, France Monday 7 April,for refusing to spray his wine grapes with a strong insecticide. He was ordered, along with other growers in the Cote d’Or region in Burgundy, to […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: biodynamic, court case, Emmanuel Giboulot, fine, insecticide, leafhopper, organic wine

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