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Château de Bellet, organic winemaking in Bellet, near Nice
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The sustainable wine blog. Château de Bellet, organic winemaking in Bellet, near Nice. After a recent visit to Château de Bellet in the hills above Nice, here's a quick post about this unusual little mice-appellation and a podcast with Château de Bellet about their wines below. Bellet as a mini-region covers around 650 hectares, although with only about 70 of these under vine. A grey day when I visited in March, but the micro appellation of Bellet usually gets 2700 hours of sun per year. Not bad. The app...
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Richard Sanford of Alma Rosa on Pinot Noir, sustainability and wine making in California
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The sustainable wine blog. Richard Sanford of Alma Rosa on Pinot Noir, sustainability and wine making in California. In the audio interview below we talked about how Richard got started making wine in the Santa Rita area in the early 1970s and how things have changed since then. Richard was the first to plant Pinot Noir west of Buellton in 1971. Since then he founded Alma Rosa vineyards and has been added to the winemaker Hall of Fame. Amongst other topics we discussed in some detail:. In terms of his Al...
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Organic vs Biodynamic: Q&A podcast with Peter Work of Ampelos vineyards, California
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The sustainable wine blog. Organic vs Biodynamic: Q&A podcast with Peter Work of Ampelos vineyards, California. Back in September this year, driving through California's central coast (see last two posts and podcasts with Richard Sanford at Alma Rosa here. And with Bob Lindquist of Qupe here. I stopped off to meet Peter Work at Ampelos vineyards. Ampelos vineyard, September 2016. I tasted their Viognier white, which was lovely, and Peter gave me a bottle of his 2012 Lambda Pinot Noir, which I enjoyed wit...
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Sustainable wine making in Piedmont: “Enlightened traditionalism” at Bartolo Mascarello
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The sustainable wine blog. Sustainable wine making in Piedmont: “Enlightened traditionalism” at Bartolo Mascarello. What can one write about a visit to Bartolo Mascarello? If there was a wine dictionary and you could look up 'sustainable', this tiny five hectare producer should be the first mention. I've visited a fair few vineyards since becoming a wine obsessive (bore to many) about five years ago. But Bartolo Mascarello is truly unique. Alan Manley, Bartolo Mascarello. Having spent just an hour or so ...
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2016 August Archive | The sustainable wine blog
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The sustainable wine blog. Monthly Archives: August 2016. Domaine de Trévallon, Provence legends, on organic, biodynamic, natural yeasts and adding water to wine, or not. It's hard to write much about Domaine de Trévallon that hasn't been written. I first heard about it from Luke Wilson, owner at the fantastic London eatery, 8 Hoxton Square. He had two bottles of the 1998 in his 'secret' wine book and raved about the wine as a winemakers favourite. So of course, my…. Sign up for updates. Sustainable wine...
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2016 October Archive | The sustainable wine blog
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The sustainable wine blog. Monthly Archives: October 2016. Sustainable wine in California: Podcast with Bob Lindquist of Qupé. As the harvest was in full swing, I was lucky enough to find myself just north of Los Angeles, in Ventura, for some sustainability advisory work with a leading company. On Saturday September 17th I had kept a day free and had been frantically emailing all the sustainably-minded winemakers I could, in order to try…. Contact me at tobiaswebb AT gmail.com. Sign up for updates. Susta...
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The sustainable wine blog. Great article on climate change and wine. This article from Andrew Jefford on Decanter.com is well worth a read. He discusses some of the predictions and possible trends around wine and climate change. Well worth a read. Despite the potential doom and gloom around this subject, (it's really really not a good thing, let's face it)he does have some positive-ish predictions which I…. Giacomo Conterno of Poderi Aldo Conterno wines on sustainability in Piedmont. Putting it simply - ...
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The sustainable wine blog. Podcast on sustainable wine making in Bandol, with Frederic Tomayan of Domaine de la Begude. Here's the first of half a dozen or so podcasts from Provence, particularly Bandol, which I will be publishing in the new few weeks. Bandol is fast becoming one of my favourite regions for wines in France. The reds can be truly stunning, the whites hard to find and superb with seafood and the rose…. Climate change “has fundamentally altered French wine harvests”. Here's a podcast interv...
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2016 April Archive | The sustainable wine blog
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The sustainable wine blog. Monthly Archives: April 2016. Podcast on sustainable wine making in Bandol, with Frederic Tomayan of Domaine de la Begude. Here's the first of half a dozen or so podcasts from Provence, particularly Bandol, which I will be publishing in the new few weeks. Bandol is fast becoming one of my favourite regions for wines in France. The reds can be truly stunning, the whites hard to find and superb with seafood and the rose…. Contact me at tobiaswebb AT gmail.com. Sign up for updates.