biodynamic – Missinwine

By - Caroline
Posted on March 1, 2016
Posted in bioenergy, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, terroir

The Bioenergetic movement in Champagne

Last week I was in London helping Marc Augustin to introduce his bioenergetic Champagnes into the UK market. In order to gather a bit of interest for his wines we had invited a handful of writers and Champagne aficionados to come and taste his Champagnes and talk about bioenergy over an apero at Dvine Cellars.

By - Caroline
Posted on September 19, 2015September 22, 2015
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015

Champagne harvest 2015 – the end of harvest at Champagne de Sousa and Champagne Moussé

On Thursday I visited Champagne de Sousa, getting ready for the end of harvest. I had wanted to visit a few times before but somehow always something came up preventing me. Charlotte told me they started harvest on the 8th of September and they are expected to finish today. The de Sousa family have 10

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 15, 2015September 16, 2015
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015

Champagne harvest 2015 – organic and biodynamic grape syncronicities at Aurélien Lurquin, Emilien Feneuil and Leclerc Briant

This weekend it seemed my visits were very interlinked in more ways than one. Synchronicities had started to happen in a big way already on Friday, when I bumped into Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon and later saw my beloved pick grapes in the biodynamic Chèvres vineyard in Cumières. Later in the evening when I stopped off at

By - Caroline
Posted on September 15, 2015September 15, 2015
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015

Champagne Harvest 2015 – harvesting the bioenergetic Clos de Cumières with Hervé Jestin

The Clos de Cumieres is a 0,5 organic vineyard owned by biodynamic wine guru Hervé Jestin. He bought the land and big farmhouse bordering the Clos from the Leclerc family in 2009 and has been vinifying the parcel since 2010. “Whilst working for Leclerc Briant I realized the fruit from the Clos was very very

By - Caroline
Posted on September 12, 2015
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015

Champagne Harvest 2015 – talking biodynamics with Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon and Johann Merle of champagne Roederer

On Thursday I had lunch with Jean-Baptiste Lecaillion and Johann Merle at the Roederer press center at Aÿ. As always we exchanged a lot on biodynamic and organic farming and how it helped Roederer this growing season. “This year we farmed 75 hectares of the 240 hectares of Roederer’s own vineyards biodynamical. We really see

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 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

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