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    Sustainability & Natural Wine

    Soil Revival: Why Regenerative Agriculture Is Rewriting Vineyard Economics

    April 22, 2026
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    What Your Wine Label Isn’t Telling You: The Push for Transparency That Could Change How You Buy

    March 25, 2026
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    The Thirsty Vine: What Regulated Deficit Irrigation Actually Buys

    February 18, 2026
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    The Carbon-Neutral Wine Question: What IWCA Certification Actually Promises

    January 21, 2026
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    The Sulfur Question in Natural Wine: Why France’s 30 mg/L Line Is the Most Honest One on the Shelf

    December 31, 2025

    Clipped to a board on the wall of a small Loire cellar, the addition log for a single cuvée of Chenin Blanc…

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    Orange Wine’s Long Arc: From Georgia’s Qvevri to Gravner’s 1996 Hail Vintage to Your Wine List

    November 26, 2025

    In a Kakheti cellar in spring, after the floor has been swept and the room cooled to the year’s working temperature, a…

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    Sustainability & Natural Wine

    The Bottle Is the Problem: Wine’s Carbon Footprint and the Lightweighting Movement

    October 8, 2025

    On January 11, 2024, Karen MacNeil published a short dispatch on WineSpeed under a deliberately flat headline: Bye Bye Big Heavy Bottles.…

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    Sustainability & Natural Wine

    Dry Farming’s Quiet Comeback: California’s Drought-Era Revival of an Old Technique

    August 27, 2025

    A dry-farmed vine in its third leaf is not, on the surface, a sympathetic object. The canopy is sparser than its irrigated…

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    Sustainability & Natural Wine

    Cover Crops & Carbon: How Vineyard Soil Is Becoming A Climate Sink

    July 30, 2025

    Cover crops in vineyards sequester up to four times the carbon of typical cropland. The science, the trade-offs, and what leading regions now require.

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    Sustainability & Natural Wine

    Demeter vs Organic: What Biodynamic Certification Actually Requires

    July 2, 2025

    At Romanée-Conti, the most-priced vineyard on earth, the cellar team buries cow horns packed with manure across the monopole each autumn. The…

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    The Pét-Nat Question: Is Méthode Ancestrale Just Lower-Stakes Champagne?

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