My apologies to those of you who've come into the shop and asked why I haven't posted anything on the blog for a while. As you can imagine, the holidays are beyond hectic and busy...sometimes it gets downright chaotic. My New Year's Resolution is to be more diligent about posting my verbal froth on this humble blog spot.
With New Year's resolutions in mind, now is a good time to mention this weekend's tasting of organic wines. For many years organic wines were not very highly regarded; they were wines whose producers were primarily concerned with organic and sustainable farming rather than producing quality wines of expressive depth and character. More recently, however, producers of fine wines around the world have discovered the necessity and usefulness to their land, and to our world as a whole, of organic farming, as well as organic farming's utility in crop quality. By not using synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, they find that not just the vineyard life is improved but also the land around the vineyard is healthier, and that what surrounds the vineyard is just as important as what's in the vineyard.
Many European vineyards have been practicing organic and sustainable farming before there was any such label, and of course we'll present some examples of fine organic farming in the form of a German Riesling from the Hirschhof winery, a Pinot Bianco from Italian producer Alois Lageder, and a Cotes du Luberon from France. We'll also present two spectacular organic wines from the New World; a Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon which received an 88 point review/score from Robert Parker, and the elegant and lush Alma Rosa Pinot Noir from the Santa Rita Hills of California.
Great wines coming from great farming methods. I hope you'll join us.
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