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By - Caroline
Posted on September 18, 2016
Posted in Champagne, champagneharvest 2016, organic, terroir

Kick off of the 2016 Champagne Harvest in Cumières

It is hard to believe harvest is upon us once again. This year marks my fifth Champagne harvest, five years living in the same place really is something of a personal victory! Especially when you consider that I stil am as excited as I was in 2012 when Onne and I picked at Jacquesson! Like

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 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 26, 2014November 28, 2014
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, organic, terroir

#TerroirChampagne #thebook reached its target! Now what?

On Tuesday afternoon around 6 pm my Terroir Champagne book campaign reached its €10,000 goal which means I can get it published!!! Whilst this made me mega happy – the ride to success after all had not been that smooth – quite a few people pointed out I should write a post explaining why I

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 November 26, 2012
Posted in biodynamic, Champagne, EWBC, organic, terroir

Caroline’s Champagne – more terroir, organic winegrowing and natural winemaking

The first thing I read this morning was “The latest stimulant to drag me out of natural wine commentary retirement was the ‘debate’ during the European Wine Blogger’s Conference in Turkey. Turns out this wasn’t a debate as much as it was a presentation–one that could have been entitled, Natural Wine? Wrong! Sorely missing on

By - Caroline
Posted on September 3, 2012
Posted in biodynamic, Californian wine trip, Onne and Caro's wine trips, organic
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On the wine road – from Oregon to California

#OnTheWineRoad #California- Hotel California from Wine Defender TV on Vimeo. We did it!! Onne and I got enough sponsorship together to make it out to California and live our great wine adventure!!!! The weather was great, the scenery gorgeous and we we had a stellar line up of appointments and wines to taste! And this

By - Caroline
Posted on June 9, 2012June 10, 2012
Posted in biodynamic, Champagne, Natural Wine, organic, terroir, wine fair
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Biodynamics and the liveliness of RAW wine…

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend both the RAW and REAL natural wine fairs in London. Both fairs had more than 200 exhibitors each and were very well attended by the public, trade and press. For 3 days I tasted some great artisan wines, had the opportunity to speak and learn

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