Sustainably farmed wines

Traditional ploughing in Vosne-Romanee

Reserving the right

Sustainable farming is for those growers who assiduously watch the safety video on aeroplanes in case the variant of the 737 they are on is unaccountably slightly different from all the others. You need to know where your nearest exit is, especially if it is just behind you. The looser rules around sustainable farming encourage you to be as organic as possible until the muck hits the spreader and you only have chemical resources to support you. 

It is very easy for me to dismiss the sustainable route as a half-hearted attempt to behave better towards the environment and vineyard - therefore wine - quality. I, after all am not a farmer with all the risks and pressures that occupation affords. Many people use sustainability as a stepping stone along the road to quality, while others simply don't occupy a segment of the market that will permit them to do that.

Sustainability means not spraying chemicals around willy-nilly in a systemic attempt to kill every organism that isn't a vine and this can involve all sorts of good measures like the planting of wild flower meadows to increase biodiversity, the use of sexual confusion as insect control and where appropriate the installation of raptor boxes to discourage small, fruit-loving mammals. /CW 26/08/15

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Vintage Description Cs Sz Bt Sz Cs Bts Cs ib Cs inc Bt inc
2018 drink or keep Angludet (Margaux)
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1x 300cl 2 0 £139.00 £181.11 £179.00 Buy
2019 drink or keep Angludet (Margaux)
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12x 37.5cl 0 3 - £252.00 £21.00 Buy
2017 ready Argadens (Bordeaux Superieur Rouge)
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12x 37.5cl 3 11 £50.00 £79.24 £7.50 Buy
N.V. ready Paul Bara Grand Rose de Bouzy
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12x 37.5cl 0 4 £195.00 £253.24 £23.99 Buy
2020 drink or keep Berthaut-Gerbet Fixin
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12x 75cl 0 3 - £398.48 £36.95 Buy
2018 drink or keep Charme des Confidences (St-Emilion)
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6x 75cl 1 4 £48.00 £76.84 £13.95 Buy
2021 drink or keep Joseph Colin St-Aubin Compendium
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6x 75cl 3 0 £165.00 £217.24 £43.95 Buy
2021 drink or keep Philippe Colin Chassagne-Montrachet
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6x 75cl 1 2 £240.00 £307.24 £56.95 Buy
2020 drink or keep Marc Colin Bourgogne Chardonnay
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6x 75cl 0 2 - £148.84 £28.95 Buy
2021 drink or keep Marc Colin St-Aubin Cuvee Luce
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6x 75cl 1 5 £156.00 £206.44 £38.95 Buy
2010 ready Le Crock (St-Estephe)
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6x 75cl 0 4 - £239.70 £39.95 Buy
2019 drink or keep Ceritas Chardonnay Carex
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6x 75cl 3 1 £345.00 £433.24 £79.95 Buy
2019 drink or keep Ceritas Chardonnay Charles Heintz
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6x 75cl 0 1 - £397.24 £74.95 Buy
2019 drink or keep Ceritas Chardonnay Trout Gulch
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6x 75cl 0 1 - £397.24 £74.95 Buy
2019 drink or keep Ceritas Pinot Noir Hellenthal Vineyard
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6x 75cl 0 1 - £487.24 £89.95 Buy
2019 drink or keep Ceritas Chardonnay Marena (Sonoma Coast)
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6x 75cl 2 0 £210.00 £271.24 £49.95 Buy
2020 drink or keep Ceritas Pinot Noir Occidental Vineyard
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6x 75cl 1 5 £480.00 £595.24 £110.00 Buy
2019 drink or keep Ceritas Chardonnay Peter Martin Ray
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6x 75cl 1 3 £315.00 £397.24 £74.95 Buy
2019 ready DeMorgenzon Reserve Chardonnay
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6x 75cl 4 0 £135.00 £181.24 £33.95 Buy
2019 ready DeMorgenzon Reserve Chenin Blanc
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6x 75cl 2 5 £126.00 £170.44 £31.50 Buy
2020 ready Division Villages Beton (Oregon)
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12x 75cl 0 3 - £362.48 £33.50 Buy
2019 drink or keep Division Chardonnay Un Willamette Valley
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6x 75cl 1 3 £162.00 £213.64 £39.50 Buy
2020 drink or keep Division Pinot Noir Un Willamette Valley
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12x 75cl 0 8 £324.00 £427.28 £39.50 Buy
2013 drink or keep Donnhoff Auslese Norheimer Dellchen GK
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12x 37.5cl 0 7 £255.00 £316.71 £29.95 Buy
2021 drink or keep Donnhoff Kabinett Kreuznach Krotenpfuhl
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6x 75cl 4 0 £90.00 £121.85 £22.50 Buy

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