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Soils and grounds.Why the quality of wine depends on the type of soils and grounds, especially in Alsace.
 The philosophy that guides the efforts of Alsace winegrowers.
Using compost and ploughing the soil allows the vine to develop a deeper root structure.
Taking full advantage of the gifts of nature, while allowing methods of production to evolve, this is the philosophy that guides the efforts of Alsace winegrowers in their vineyards and encourages them to widely adopt new techniques : Using compost and ploughing the soil allows the vine to develop a deeper root structure.
date: 2005-07-05
Elegance of Alsacian wines
Alsace known in the world for the elegance and the finesse of its white wines, Alsace is also the only French region in which the name of the grape is a primary element of the label.
date: 2005-07-20
Biodynamic winemaking: where wine meets cosmos
There is an entire philosophy of making wine that revolves around the Cosmos. Biodynamic winemaking is partially based upon the idea that the earth and plant life have rhythms in respect to their position to the sun, moon and stars. It is believed that the cosmos and constellations have influence on the different aspects of the plant’s growth, therefore the work done in the vineyard and cellar correspond with these rhythms.
date: 2006-03-24
Botrytis - The noble rot
There are at least eighty different fungi that can attack grapes, and nearly all of them have effects that are catastrophic. Under the right circumstances, however, when most winemakers learn that their grapes have been "attacked" by the fungus known as "Botrytis Cinerea", they find it hard to hide their joy. Botrytis, it should be understood, is a beneficial fungus that can transform an ordinary wine into a great one.
date: 2006-03-29
An increasing taste for Biodynamic agriculture
Bio wines : better wines?
In Alsace, 83 winegrowers chose the biodynamic path, a small 6 % of alsatian total wineyards.
The 2006 edition of "meeting with biodynamic alsatian winegrowers" took place in Paris after Strasbourg last year, and Kientzheim (Alsace) in 2004.
date: 2006-04-07
Pinot Noir Trends in 2006
* Continued emergence of the “garagista” or “shedista” Pinot Noir winemaker. The story often goes like this: borrow some money, rent a small space that will hold some barrels, purchase a sorting table, a press, and some tanks, search the countryside for some precious Pinot Noir grapes that a grower is willing to sell and make your own Pinot Noir. A consulting winemaker is often overseeing the venture. These are frequently one-man operations and are truly “hands-on” from the design of the label, to the affixing of the label to the bottles, to the placement of the label in fine restaurants.
date: 2007-05-21
Grape expectations
LONDON: It's one of the wine world's most threadbare cliches, right up there with "gravity flow winery", "perfect with cheese and red meat" and "we picked before the rains".
If I had 1,000 pounds for every time someone told me "our wine is made in the vineyard" I'd be richer than Roman Abramovich.
It's undeniably true that to make good wine you need to start with decent raw materials. Unless a winemaker resorts to duggery of the skull (flavorants, fruit juice or cross-border blending), the grapes used will more or less determine the quality of the liquid he puts in the bottle. That may be why certain Californian winemakers have started calling themselves "winegrowers".
date: 2007-05-21
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