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How To Choose Organic Wine For Your Wedding

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Just as you pour yourself into the planning of your ceremony and menu, what you pour into your glasses for your first wedding toast is a significant a statement about your tastes and values. So how do you choose the perfect wine for your wedding reception? What do you need to know? Ron Porter, sommellier for Organic Wine Company, breaks it down into some simple steps: Keep it Friendly Wedding wine should always be comprised of “friendly” selections that are easy to drink, as you generally have no time to allow the wines to breathe.  Schedule a Tasting Consider hosting your … Continue reading →

Crossing Over, By Kaitlyn Pintor

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Crossing Over by Kaitlyn Pintor Alright already. I admit it. I am slowly going organic. Yes, I said slowly, but the important word here is “GOING”.  Slowly, because I have decided to do it my way.  Going, because I’d like to think I am intelligent enough to understand the reality of what’s happening in the environment, and because my own health demands a change. RESISTANCE For those of you who have always been organic, you may not have noticed that you stand out.  In fact, you are quite frankly a little intimidating.  What held me back from choosing organic were … Continue reading →

We’re in the Business of Caring

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  We are not in the wine business: we are in the business of caring. We have chosen organic wines to support the winemakers who go the extra mile to preserve the Earth. We care about where we all live and if this is our only contribution to this world, we will have done our small part. We have chosen organic wines because they are so much healthier for our own bodies and for the people with whom we want to share these wines. By choosing organic wines we show our families, our friends, our colleagues, our partners and our … Continue reading →

Tasting Wine Visually

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Those intriguing Microscopic images of our wines are art, but also symbolic or visual clues to taste. Author Sondra Barett woul say you’re looking at the spirit, personality and stylistic expression of wine. Its inner beauty. Sondra and I go way back. Sondra is a PhD biochemist and was seduced by the exquisite expressions of the grape when she was artist-in-residence at a Napa Valley winery more than 30 years ago. Yet her photographic explorations actually began while she was a medical scientist on the faculty at the University of California Medical School. Blending her passions to illuminate and investigate … Continue reading →

“Organic Will Become the Norm Rather Than the Exception.”

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Hate to say I told you so but I did, 30 years ago when I took up this cause and brought the first organic wine to this country. My vision for the future, if we were to have one, had to be via organic agriculture & viticulture. Well how about that…it has been painful to be 30 years ahead of one’s time, but certainly worth it. Millésime Bio – Organic wines on a roll – LAJOURNEE-VINICOLE.COM | 01/02/2013 | EDITION N°337 “The world’s largest organic wine store, Millésime Bio, opened its doors in Montpellier on Monday for a three-day event that attracted … Continue reading →

Qi Gong: Cultivate Spirituality

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Fasten your seat belts! I like to call qi gong “meditation in movement”. I was introduced first to Tai Chi back in London in 1968-nearly 50 years ago (oh my God!). Since then I have studied multiple forms of yoga and qi gong. This one seems to cut to the chase, gets you right were you live and can be practiced just about anywhere. I’ve noticed that everyone around me seems  quite obsessed with “working out.” And I do agree with the fact that exercising until you become a sweaty, tired mess is sometimes useful. In fact, it should be … Continue reading →

How The Wine Wench Became a Believer in Organic Wine

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The Wine Wench Goes Green (And Not With Envy)! By Sue Straight, Dec. 26 2012 I’ve been doing this wine writing thing for over ten years now and have loved every minute of it (and still do). Here’s a new twist ~ in addition to my usual ramblings and rants, I will now be doing an “Organic Wine of the Week” review. Here’s why ~ I recently met Veronique Raskin, Founder and CEO of The Organic Wine Company and she has opened my eyes to the beauty of organic wines. Like so many other wine folks out there, I was … Continue reading →

Transforming the world one listener at the time?

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On Thursday, January 3rd I got interviewed live on the Dr. Pat Show. Here’s the link to my interview! I really enjoy the Transformation Talk Radio, which Dr. Martini describes as being “one of the most inspiring shows. if you want to be on the edge of your seat, If you want to open up your heart, if you want to expand your mind, if you want to meet incredible people, stay tuned!”. Needless to say I was proud to speak my mind on such an interesting radio. “Transforming the world, one listener at the time!”

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Millésime Bio: World’s Largest Gathering of Organic Wineries!

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The 19th annual Millesime Bio took place in the South of France at the end of last month! We have several posts from our new friend Mr. Howard Hewitt who did a wonderful job of reporting what took place. What is the Millesime Bio? The Millesime Bio is the world’s largest gathering of organic wineries and organic wine trade press, it is a yearly competition in which organic winemakers from across the world compete for awards and medals and members of the wine industry present seminars and speeches. The fair takes place every year in January in the heart of … Continue reading →

The EU Decides “Organic Wine” Can Contain Sulfites!

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– by W. Blake Gray. While “organic wine” in the U.S. is a minor category, it’s about to become big in Europe. The EU has ruled the exact opposite of the US: that “organic wine” can contain sulfites. The EU will restrict the amount of sulfites they may contain: 100 ppm total for red wine, 150 ppm for white or rosé, as opposed to the 10 ppm allowed (and only when naturally occurring) in U.S. “organic wine.” (Conventional wines in the US are allowed 350 ppm.) This is a huge difference. In covering this issue, I have spoken to several natural … Continue reading →