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
N.V. ready Gallimard Cuvee Amphoressence
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6x 75cl 3 0 £225.00 £289.24 £53.99 Buy
N.V. ready Gallimard Cuvee de Reserve
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6x 75cl 14 3 £117.00 £159.64 £29.99 Buy
N.V. ready Gallimard Cuvee de Reserve
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12x 37.5cl 0 6 £132.00 £177.64 £16.99 Buy
N.V. ready Gallimard Cuvee Quintessence
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6x 75cl 1 1 £162.00 £213.64 £39.99 Buy
2021 drink or keep Gunderloch vom Roten Schiefer Riesling
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6x 75cl 2 4 £60.00 £91.24 £16.95 Buy
2021 drink or keep Gunderloch Kabinett Jean Baptiste
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6x 75cl 2 5 £69.00 £98.20 £18.95 Buy
2021 drink or keep Gunderloch Spatlese Rothenberg
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6x 75cl 1 5 £135.00 £172.70 £33.95 Buy
2021 young Gunderloch Pettenthal Grosses Gewachs
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6x 75cl 0 4 £210.00 £271.24 £51.95 Buy
2021 young Gunderloch Rothenberg Grosses Gewachs
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6x 75cl 2 0 £240.00 £307.24 £58.95 Buy
2003 ready Louis Jadot Gevrey Clos St-Jacques
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12x 75cl 0 0 £1,200.00 - - Buy
2014 drink or keep Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl 1 0 £400.00 - - Buy
2016 drink or keep Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl 1 0 £400.00 - - Buy
2018 young Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl 2 0 £390.00 - - Buy
2022 young Domaine des Lambrays Morey-St-Denis
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6x 75cl ep ep £450.00 - - Buy
2018 drink or keep Latour-Martillac Rouge (Pessac)
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12x 37.5cl 0 6 - £217.24 £21.50 Buy
2023 young Latour-Martillac Rouge (Pessac)
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6x 75cl ep ep - - - Buy
2021 young Latour-Martillac Blanc (Pessac)
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6x 75cl 3 0 £143.00 - - Buy
2023 young Latour-Martillac Blanc (Pessac)
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6x 75cl ep ep - - - Buy
2020 drink or keep Dr Loosen Urziger Wurzgarten GG
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6x 75cl 3 1 £165.00 £217.24 £39.95 Buy
2018 ready La Loubiere (Bordeaux Superieur Rouge)
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6x 75cl 0 0 £39.00 £66.04 £11.95 Buy
2014 drink or keep Larrivaux (Haut-Medoc)
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12x 75cl 5 3 £150.00 £218.48 £19.95 Buy
2019 drink or keep Larrivaux (Haut-Medoc)
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6x 75cl 5 0 £60.00 £91.24 £16.95 Buy
2020 young Larrivaux (Haut-Medoc)
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6x 75cl 6 0 £54.00 - - Buy
2021 young Larrivaux (Haut-Medoc)
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6x 75cl 1 0 £60.00 - - Buy
2022 young Larrivaux (Haut-Medoc)
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6x 75cl 9 0 £66.00 - - Buy

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