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Episode 32, Leon's Winementaries
Yesterday I closed episode 31 with the slogan: Biological actually quite logical.
Of course I didn't come up with it myself, but
if you think about it, it's so true! It's so logical. Surely as a farmer you want your grapevines to grow on a soil as healthy as possible?
And you don't want all kinds of materials used to avoid diseases, actually cause more damage?
That those harmful substances eventually end up in the product what you're trying to create with such passion.
You don't want that, because as a wine grower you also drink a glass of your own wine.
I therefore believe that any self-respecting vintner works very hard and that it's not as black and white as it seems.
I am convinced that a lot of vintners actually work in an organic way.
But as I said yesterday, there are a lot who do not choose to be checked.
I heard several growers say that they don't want to be visited by a "three-piece suit" to check them and says I'm doing right and which I then presented a bill for.
Also, there are still farmers who fear the "woolly socks & sandals" image, although that group is getting smaller.
And then there are the skeptics who believe that organic farming is only possible because the organic land
is surrounded by non-organic operating companies, that already fought certain diseases.
Worldwide, organic viticulture involves less energy and has a positive impact on employment in rural areas.
A disadvantage is that a biological approach is more labor intensive and therefore adversely affects the consumer price.
Advantages, disadvantages. Proponents, opponents. You may say it yourself.
The wine for this episode the Coteaux du Languedoc 2010 from Domaine d'Aupilhac and this mark proofs it is an organic wine.
It looks different as the wine of yesterday: it was the Dutch mark, the EKO label issued by the Dutch control organisation Skal,
because it was a Chilean wine that was bottled in the Netherlands.
On the modern site of Domaine d'Aupilhac there's a lot of information.
Really nice and personally I always want to find who you're dealing with.
A family business headed by Sylvain and Desiree Fadat among other writes that:
Le respect du sol avec la the préservation son équilibre est notre prioritization,
which means that compliance with the protection of soil balance is our priority. Beautiful!
Let's have a taste, according to the back label the wine is made of Grenache and Cinsault, supplemented with some Syrah, Carignan and what Mourverdre.
Frankly, it's a bit disappointing. I think, it's simple, lacks tension, very plainly.
Unfortunately, I expected a lot more. It is a wine from the sample box of By the Grape from episode 15
and this is the 11th of the 12 wines I tasted, the previous 10 were all good.
And frankly, I let me lead for this wine to choose for this episode,
but if I had known this before I had probably not produce an episode of winementary on it.
But on the other side of course an excellent score: 10 out of the 11 wines that are good, and one which for me is below par.
And maybe it's just this particular bottle, which is not optimal. That's always possible. Because it had some oxidative tones.
I promise that I will order another bottle of it to try again and if it's yet very good, I will certainly let you know.
Something nice about By the Grape is that you can order by the bottle. You can create your own box of 12 samples.
Tomorrow another organic red wine, that one is delicious, because I have tasted it already.
Thanks for watching, hope you'll watch tomorrow.