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Grape-growing to save the planet

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Wednesday 2 June 2021

organic biodynamics carbon regenerative agriculture

Tablas Creek vineyard, Paso Robles

4 September 2021 You can read more about this topic, and various practical difficulties associated with it, in an article in Wine Business Monthly, September 2021 by Emeritus Professor Robert White of Australia and fellow soil scientists Nick Madden and Alfred Cass of California.

2 June 2021 Arnica Rowan, wine writer, educator, and consultant based in British Columbia, issues her very own rallying cry. Tablas Creek's Regenerative Organic Certified™ vineyard in Paso Robles above.

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