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 Btssort descending Cs ib Cs inc Bt inc
2013 drink or keep Niepoort Calderera Mencia (Bierzo)
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6x 75cl 2 0 £195.00 £253.24 £46.95 Buy
2010 ready Angludet (Margaux)
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6x 75cl 1 0 £210.00 - - Buy
2010 ready Angludet (Margaux)
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3x 150cl 1 0 £210.00 - - Buy
2011 ready Angludet (Margaux)
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6x 75cl 1 0 £126.00 - - Buy
2010 drink or keep de Fargues (Sauternes)
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12x 75cl 3 0 £720.00 £902.48 £83.95 Buy
2003 ready Louis Jadot Gevrey Clos St-Jacques
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12x 75cl 0 0 £1,200.00 - - Buy
2011 drink or keep Leoville Barton (St-Julien)
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6x 75cl 1 0 £300.00 - - Buy
2011 drink or keep Leoville-Las Cases (St-Julien)
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6x 75cl 1 0 £660.00 - - Buy
2011 drink or keep Pichon-Longueville Baron (Pauillac)
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6x 75cl 1 0 £540.00 - - Buy
2010 ready Ridge Lytton Springs
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12x 75cl 1 0 £650.00 - - Buy
2003 ready Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet
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6x 75cl 1 0 £1,500.00 - - Buy
2004 ready Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet
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6x 75cl 1 0 £1,450.00 - - Buy
2009 drink or keep Giuseppe Mascarello Barolo Monprivato
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6x 75cl 1 0 £600.00 - - Buy
2009 ready Giovanni Rosso Barolo Serralunga
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6x 75cl 1 0 £180.00 - - Buy
2012 drink or keep Felettig Chambolle-Musigny Carrieres
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6x 75cl 1 0 £450.00 - - Buy
2014 drink or keep Denis Berthaut Fixin Les Crais
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12x 75cl 1 0 £396.00 - - Buy
2014 drink or keep Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl 1 0 £400.00 - - Buy
2015 drink or keep Donnhoff Kreuznacher Kahlenberg Dry
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6x 75cl 1 0 £120.00 - - Buy
2015 drink or keep Donnhoff Spatlese Nieder Hermannshohle
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6x 75cl 1 0 £220.00 - - Buy
2016 drink or keep Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl 1 0 £400.00 - - Buy
2017 drink or keep Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl 1 0 £350.00 - - Buy
2018 drink or keep Angludet (Margaux)
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1x 300cl 2 0 £139.00 £181.11 £179.00 Buy
2018 drink or keep Pavie Macquin (St-Emilion)
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3x 150cl 1 0 £330.00 - - Buy
2018 drink or keep Berthaut-Gerbet Fixin Les Arvelets
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6x 75cl 1 0 £460.00 - - Buy
2018 drink or keep Felettig Chambolle-Musigny Carrieres
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6x 75cl 2 0 £420.00 £523.24 £96.95 Buy

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