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Beyond Organic Wine

Beyond Organic Wine

Organic Wine is the gateway to explore the entire wine industry - from soil to sommeliers - from a revolutionary perspective. Deep interviews discussing big ideas with some of the most important people on the cutting edge of the regenerative renaissance, about where wine comes from and where it is going. beyondorganicwine.substack.com

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61:07

Indulging In The Most Precious Secret Ingredient:...

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2026/01/06

I had such a great time on my first trip and was so impressed by the wines that I went back to Quebec for a second trip and discovered another fantastic producer who has been certified organic since 2021, growing a few select vinifera and several hybrids, and making some outstanding wines. They are Vignoble Sugar Hill and please do yourself a favor and try their wines. This is a second career for the owners, and their first career must have been successful, because the winemaking at Sugar Hill

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4:48

Don’t Drink Champagne On New Years

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/12/29

The vast majority of champagnes we buy and drink in the US are over-priced luxury brands made of cheap materials, harmful farming practices, and at times exploitive labor. We get told constantly that Champagne, the region, is “moving toward” more sustainable practices, and that it is continually “doing better” with regard to ecological viticulture, but that’s because it has so far to go. As a region it consistently uses the highest percentage of pesticides of any wine region in France. Its governing

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19:09

Embracing Life - Beyond Organic Wine 2025

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/12/23

Reflections on some of the big questions of 2025, and recommendations of some of my favorite books from 2025. An end of year wish for you and your wine, and a big thank you to everyone who makes Beyond Organic Wine possible. I hope to see you at Embracing Hybrid Grapes on January 26, 2026.Embracing Hybrid Grapes in California. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com/subscribe

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88:58

Syntropic Vitiforestry with Married Vines

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/12/14

What if I told you that you could take a piece of degraded, marginal land with 3.5 pH soils and turn it into an agricultural production system with five times the productivity of neighboring conventional farms without using any fertilizer or pesticides or outside inputs besides sunlight, seeds, and plants? What if I told you that there are decades of data to support this and that it can be done anywhere, and that this system makes grapes more productive, healthier, and more delicious?Erik

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88:16

Folk Wines & Ciders - Greenpoint Cidery with Nika...

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/12/08

My guest for this episode is Nika Carlson of Greenpoint Cidery in Hudson, New York. There are some unique and wonderful aspects of what Nika does that make this conversation fun and enlightening in ways that I find thrilling and inspiring…. She planted her estate orchard entirely from wild seedling apple trees that she selected from her region. She ferments a landscape of flavors, including herbal and floral ingredients in her concoctions. She lives part-time, nearly off-grid at the orchard. And she

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67:57

Regenerative Organic Wine At Any Scale - Joseph...

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/12/02

My guest for this episode is Joseph Brinkley. Joseph is the Senior Director of Regenerative Organic Farming at Bonterra. He oversees farming of Bonterra’s 800+ acres of estate vineyards in Mendocino County, all of which are farmed with organically. Bonterra is one of the largest organic B-corporation wineries in the US, and they are now the largest winery to achieve Regenerative Organic certification. Joseph discusses the importance of the social focus of the Regenerative Organic certification,

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26:54

Usonia Wine - Alex & Julia Alvarez-Perez

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/11/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.comMy guests for this episode are Julia and Alex Alvarez-Perez of Usonia Wine in the Finger Lakes region of New York… and they will be sponsoring Embracing Hybrid Grapes in California with two of their wines… and I’m very much looking forward to sharing them with those of you who attend… you are in for a surprise and a treat…Very much like you are in for …

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92:34

Rage Against The Machine: Winegrowing for Human Wellness

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/11/17

My guest for this episode is Franz Weninger of organic and biodynamic certified Weingut Weninger in Horitschon, Austria… and you, dear listener, are in for a treat. Franz is a second generation winegrower who thinks deeply about the soil, the plants, the systems and ideas that go into the ecology of wine. He offers practical and surprising insights into how to grow vinifera with less sprays, how to design vineyards for human psychological health as well as environmental health, how using

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66:21

Dying On The Vine - Phylloxera, Hybrids, and the...

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/11/09

My guest for this episode is George Gale. George has led a double life. On the surface, George presented a public façade as a philosopher of science, American historian, professor, and author. He was a PhD student at UC Davis, and wrote his dissertation at Oxford. He has a Wikipedia page, spent 43 years as a professor of science and philosophy at University of Missouri Kansas City, and published multiple papers and books on the philosophy of science, the big bang theory, the anthropic principle, the

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102:56

Pro-Human Natural Wine at Amiti

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/10/29

My guest is Rueben Lange of Amiti in Oregon FromAmiti.com. Rueben first worked a harvest in 2016, but he has packed in something like 12 harvests since then by bouncing between Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and three continents, including some notable vintages at Idiot’s Grace in the Columbia River Gorge, Maison Maenad in the Jura, and Forlorn Hope in California. Rueben says of Amiti:“The goal of this project - beyond employing the basic tenets of good land stewardship (both in my farming and

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71:33

Nature Is An Event To Celebrate, Not A Problem To Solve

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/10/21

My guest for this episode is Michael Völker, one of the Zwei Natur Kinder in Germany. Michael and Melanie Drese spent many years working in other fields, traveling the world and. In 2013 they returned to begin taking over Michael’s father’s winery in Kitzingen in Franconia, Bavarian Germany. They began to make natural wines under the 2naturkinder label as a side project for the winery, and since then have decided to fully expand the project to take over all of the winery’s production. They make wine

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60:27

400+ Years Without Chemicals - Chateau Le Puy

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/10/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.comMy guest for this episode is Harold Langlais, who works as Marketing Director for and part owner with the Amoreau family at Chateau Le Puy. Chateau Le Puy’s land – the Hill of Wonders - has been chemical free since it began in the 1600’s. After WW1 they refused to begin using the novel chemistry that came out of the war and they have continued on that …

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93:25

Alder Yarrow

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/10/06

My guest for this episode is Alder Yarrow. Alder writes and does everything for the blog Vinography, and I’ve been receiving Alder’s weekly email for several years. He gives a list of links of articles he’s been reading, and I always enjoy scanning this list to see what’s going on in the wine zeitgeist.Alder’s Vinography.com blog has been published daily since 2004, and was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2013.Since 2011, Alder has also been a monthly columnist for Jancis Robinson where he also

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23:23

Naked Grazing - Jared Lloyd

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/09/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com“The earth is alive. The earth is intelligent. The earth is having a crisis because of us. The good news is: we are the earth ourselves, and we can be much stronger in our activism if we remember that we are acting on behalf of, we are living agents of, we are part of, this living being called the Earth.Earthelujah!”That’s a quote from Reverend Billy of…

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107:58

Back To The Land Wine - Joe Barreca, Barreca Vineyards

Beyond Organic Wine ·

2025/09/08

The last episode featured a 110 acre biodynamic chateau in one of Washington state’s famed AVAs. This episode features a 1 acre organic and regenerative vineyard of hybrids and vinifera with a straw bale winery and an underground house in a part of Washington that isn’t known for wine. I point out this contrast not to say that one is better than the other, but because in our dominant culture I’ve noticed that one is taken more seriously than the other. And I’m not saying that a 110 acre vineyard is

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