biodynamic – Missinwine

By - Caroline
Posted on August 26, 2018August 28, 2018
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne Harvest 2018

Champagne Harvest 2018: Marie-Noelle Ledru and Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy

Harvest started early in 2018, officially opening on August 20th, yet the official dates showed big differences, with some villages only opening early September. Derogations are possible and even if a few people began picking earlier, so far the harvest has been slow to start, wit many people waiting till next week to bring the troops

By - Caroline
Posted on September 22, 2015March 2, 2016
Posted in biodynamic, bioenergy, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015

Champagne harvest – the bioenergetic cuvée Liberance en primeur at Franck Pascal

My last visit this harvest season was at Franck and Isabelle Pascalle in Baslieux-sous-Chatillon. I arrived at the same time as the last grapes for the day. Franck and Isabelle have been farming biodynamically since 2002 and for the last 5 years they have taken things another step forward by applying bioenergy in the winery

By - Caroline
Posted on September 19, 2015September 19, 2015
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015

Champagne harvest 2015 – a day in the vineyard and winery with the Lahaye family

On Wednesday I spent the day with the Lahaye family. After lunch Benoit first took me to the Argentière vineyard where we checked on the ripeness, before joining his pickers in the youngest part of the Jardin de la Grosse Pierre. For the last 10 years, Benoit has employed a Turkish family paid by the

By - Caroline
Posted on September 10, 2015
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015, organic

Champagne Harvest 2015- beautiful biodynamic grapes at Bourgeois Diaz and Françoise Bedel

Yesterday I sPent the day in Croutes sur Marne, the last village of the Vallée de la Marne when driving to Paris. It is a rare village with 2 biodynamic producers – seeing there only are 25 certified producers in Champagne. We started our day at Jérôme Bourgeois, who was picking Pinot Noir

By - Caroline
Posted on September 9, 2015
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015, organic

Champagne Harvest 2015 – picking Pinot Noir for Vouette and Sorbée

Yesterday afternoon Bertrand Gautherot’s team were picking Pinot Noir in the Vouette vineyard. I love Bertrand’s Vouette vineyard as you can really see the Kimmeridgean terroir, lots of limestone pebbles in the clay :-) Bertrand feels that this clay and limestone will better express the character of the 2025 vintage. “The summer has been very

By - Caroline
Posted on June 14, 2015June 16, 2015
Posted in biodynamic, Champagne, terroir

The Grand Cru worthy Terroir of the Aube

The Cote des Bar has always been a little stand alone in the Champagne region. The fact that the region is located on the other side of the plains, about a 150 km south of Epernay has probably something to do with it.There are also historical reasons: the 1911 Champagne Riots partly broke out because

By - Caroline
Posted on February 10, 2015February 12, 2015
Posted in biodynamic, organic, social media, wine marketing

Organic wine bashing – why I feel it is wasted energy in more ways than one

This morning I read yet another thread of organic and biodynamic growing bashing on Facebook, this time in the so called enlightened “The science of French wine” group. The discussion started by somebody posting a link to a study which ‘proved‘ that ‘both vitality and biodiversity of indigenous yeast populations are highest in conventional vineyards

By - Caroline
Posted on November 9, 2014November 10, 2014
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, organic, terroir

Terroir Champagne: my book project through crowd funding

On October 20th I have launched a crowd funding campaign to try and raise €10,000 to self publish the first book on environmentally friendly Terroir Champagne. The tittle of the book says it all: Terroir Champagne: the Luxury of Sustainable, Organic and Biodynamic Cuvees. The aim is to have the book published and delivered by

By - Caroline
Posted on November 2, 2014November 4, 2014
Posted in biodynamic, Natural Wine, organic, terroir

Natural Wine by Isabelle Legeron

I very rarely publish a book review here, in fact I believe this is the first time ever that I want to share a book on this blog… The reason is very simple, Isabelle Legeron‘s Natural Wine book completely blew me away. The main reason for this is that Natural Wine gives a very clear

By - Caroline
Posted on August 13, 2014March 2, 2016
Posted in biodynamic, bioenergy, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, terroir
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One Step Beyond – Franck Pascal’s Bio-energetic Champagne

At the beginning of June I spent my birthday learning all about bio-energetic Champagne at Franck Pascal‘s. Franck and Isabelle had invited me together with the staff of La Truffiere, a Michelin starred Parisian restaurant, to share their 20 year wine making journey with all its ups and downs. I had first tasted Pascal’s’s wines

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