False Debate over Nourishing Vineyards
I'm always puzzled about the debate over organic VS non-organic farming/gardening practices.
That conversation/debate is now extending to organically grown grapes for wine making. Less than 60 years ago, almost everyone farmed everything organically. Synthetic fertilizers did not exist. Farmers used heavy mulches, green cover crops which were planted in the winter and then plowed under (winter rye and red clover being two favorites), and manure. That's the way my family farmed. We had good crops, healthy ones with few bugs or wilts, rich land and delicious smelling dirt!
And didn't all vineyards everywhere rely on these same practices as well? They must have. They had to have had, because there were no fertilizers other than cow, pig, chicken and horse manure. No waste, no want.
Organic = No sulphites
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I am not a wine expert, in fact one of the reason I rarely drink wine is that sulphites in most of today's wines give me galloping headaches and shooting eye pains. YUCK!! who would want to drink and feel so horrible? But the new organics may change my habits. It does sound nice to sit out on a summer evening with a chilled glass of white wine, good friends and a lovely sunset. Ummmmmmmmm.
Here is an interesting Forbes Article on this issue. And one factor in longevity is tied to a small consumption daily of drink. Just make mine organic.
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