A very good article by Laure Gasparotto lemonde.fr on the magazine about organic wine echoing the recent performance of the show in Montpellier Year Bio.
A good article because it was able to see people who have things to say without mixing chapels ! ( see last article )
And also because she understood the stakes say stupidity, what changes us a lot of fashion still going to speak and write to say nothing ... Excerpts:
"It has become the organic fair the largest in Europe , it is essential ". Yet, if Europe is becoming the main producer of organic wines, with 88% of biological surfaces in the world, France is champion in the field! Far from it. End of 2010, the organic , all crops covered only 4% of farms and only 2% of the food market ... We still talk about the longer bio than is consumed.
Side vineyards , the Hexagon , with 50,268 hectares farmed organically in 2010, slightly more than 6% of French vineyards, stands behind Spain (57,232 hectares) and Italy (52,273 hectares). But things are moving. In 2009, France showed that 39 000 hectares of vineyards organic. And in 2012, the volume of organic wine is expected to double compared to 2010.
Certainly one of the objectives of culture in biology remains sustainable development by restricting all kinds of pollution. But behind this philosophy of life, the ultimate search of the winemaker, who farms organically, is more immediate and prosaic: a precise quality and a recognizable individuality of its wine. A stronger flavor, more personal, richer (some also say "more vibrant"), which stands in the ocean of world wines, with a consistent trend.
First merchant of France to produce wine from biodynamic culture, Michel Chapoutier therefore applies the same policy to all its wines, whether from its properties (in the Cotes du Rhone, in Roussillon or Australia) or those other. "Biodynamics seems to me the logic in defense of our names. Before taking this decision, I had traveled around many different countries, where it was the brand and variety that were based marketing, says Michel Chapoutier . I realized that the wealth of France was formed by the diversity of his land. It was necessary to enable the soil to keep their distinction. I opted for agriculture against all the powers of death that are soil fungicides and other products in "ide"! "
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