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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, champagneharvest 2016, organic, terroir
Tagged Ay, Blanc de Rose, champagne harvest, Coteau Champenois, Cumières, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon, Johann Merle, Les hautes Chèvres, Les Longues Viols, Meunier, organic, Pinot Noir, Roederer, rosé de saignée, Vincent Laval
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, organic, social media, wine marketing
Tagged biodynamic, organic, organic bashing, Sustainable
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#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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, organic, terroir
Tagged biodynamic, Cain Todd, Cephas, crowd funding, Ian Westcott, Indiegogo, Isabelle Legeron MW, Jura Wine Book, Kat Morse, Mick Rock, Onneca Guelbenzu, organic, Sustainable, terroir champagne, Terroir Champagne Book Project, the book
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Natural Wine, organic, terroir
Tagged Isabelle Legeron, natural wine
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Californian wine trip, Onne and Caro's wine trips, organic
Tagged #omthewineroad, Benzinger, biodynamic, Broman Cellars, Broman goodness, bug farms, California, certification, Crown Victoria, gardens, home made sausages, Lenné Estate, Napa, Oregon, organic, Pinot Noir, Quintessa, Sonoma, sustainable farming
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Champagne, Natural Wine, organic, terroir, wine fair
Tagged artisan wine, balance, biodynamic farming, biodynamic grape growing, biodynamic wine, Claude Bourgignon, Craig Hawkins, David Léclapart, living soil, mineratity, natural wine, Nicolas Joly, RAW, s, Terroir, Tom Lubbe, Vinivert
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