The Flora
Vineyard/Farm as a living, life giving system
The Dirt/Soil
The vines reach into the soil for their essential needs: water to drink and food to eat. If the soil is full of microbiotic life and natural nutrients, the vine absorbs everything it needs to grow at a normal, healthy rate.
“Wine From Here”
This documentary is about natural wine in California. Each natural wine producer will have his own definition of “natural wine”, but most would rally in saying that they are dedicated to put the terroir on a pedestal.
La Cantina Pizzolato
All wines of La Cantina Pizzolato come from organically grown grapes to meet the expectations of today’s health-oriented consumer. Organic farming was started in 1985 according to European and now USDA NOP certification and control standards. The owner, Settimo Pizzolato, carefully oversees the entire process carried out by his family and staff to obtain the best possible results.
Chateau de Lagarde
Located in the Entre-Deux-Mers, not far from Bordeaux, their wines have grown in the villages of Saint-Laurent-du-Bois, Saint-Martial, Saint-Felix de Conclude since medieval times. The Raymond family has a long history of growing wine, dating back to 1850.
Casa De Mouraz
Founded in 2000 by Antonio Lopes Ribeiro, Casa de Mouraz, located in Mouraz, area of Tondela, Portugal was the first Dão producer to work organically, and later biodynamically. Dão is one of the most important and prestigious wine areas in Portugal.
Bodegas Iranzo
Since 1994 Bodegas Iranzo has exclusively produced wine from organically grown grapes making the winery one of the oldest-established vineyards in Spain to apply this European Organic regulation. Bodegas Iranzo is one of the first bodegas in Spain to be certified EU organic and the FIRST bodega in Spain to receive USDA National Organic Program certification.
Biokult
The Michlits Family has not only been able to understand and implement the use of non-trimmed vines in the region, but the use of biodynamic methods and the translation of these into new production standards are awe inspiring.
Demystifying Wine Sulfites
Sulfites in wine are ingredients about which there are a lot of misconceptions. Many people avoid wine entirely because of sulfites, and for the most part this is not necessary and is based on false information.
Biodynamic Wines – Taking in Terroir
Biodynamic viticulture is a methodology of growing grapes based on a principle that all living organisms are inter-related and are affected by the spiritual elements within the universe.
Gilles Louvet Vineyard
Gilles Louvet Vineyards was founded in 1993 to create exceptional wine in Languedoc by reviving ancient grape growing methods that respect the environment and the richness of the soil.
The Visionary Behind Biodynamics
The idea of the “farm organism” as a living being to be protected from outside materials is inherent to the idea of biodynamic farming.
