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Tasting articles Wine Capital Mainz 2025 Highlights from the Sekt show, VinVin and the Biodynamic Wine Fair in Rheinhessen’s central city. In the image above we are instructed to 'Always follow the bubbles' into the Sektbörse...
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Paula Sidore Thursday 3 July 2025 • 12 min read
Quintessa estate
Tasting articles Quintessa and biodynamics in Napa
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This photograph taken on March 31, 2024, shows a view of flooded vineyards due to the overflowing of the Vienne river, in Chinon, western France. More than a hundred people were evacuated from their homes in Indre-et-Loire and Vienne, and a kayaker was reported missing in Haute-Vienne, following heavy river flooding in west-central France since March 30, 2024. (Photo by Pascal LACHENAUD / AFP) (Photo by PASCAL LACHENAUD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Free for all Paul Dolan 1950–2023 Sam Cole-Johnson and others celebrate an inspirational figure in organic, biodynamic and regenerative viticulture. In 1976, Paul Dolan graduated from... Read more
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Tasting articles Biodyvin's biodynamic wines This Alsace-based biodynamic group is growing in size and stature, gathering top names in wine from all corners of France... Read more
Rodrigo Soto, Alan York, and terroir and soil specialist, Pedro Parra visit renowned soil microbiologist Claude Bourguignon, Anne-Claude Leflaive (who helped to spread biodynamic viticulture across Burgundy), and Antoine Lepetit (specialist in biodynamic viticulture) in 2011. Left to right: Parra, Soto, Bourguignon, York, Leflaive. Credit to Rodrigo Soto
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Free for all WWC22 – Melanie Hickman This entry to our 2022 writing competition offers an interesting perspective on sustainable viticulture in Rioja. For more great wine... Read more
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Max on Oz Grosset – a biodynamics sceptic converted The vineyards, and wines, of Mount Horrocks and Grosset have been revolutionised, much to Jeffrey Grosset's surprise. Stephanie Toole lifts... Read more
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