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    Sustainability & Natural Wine

    The Vine That Fights Back: How PIWI Hybrids Are Quietly Rewriting the Spray Diary

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    The Flock in the Vines: Why Year-Round Sheep Are Replacing the Herbicide Tank

    July 22, 2026
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    The Sustainability Seal Alphabet Soup: What CCSW, LODI RULES, And SIP Actually Require

    June 3, 2026
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    Soil Revival: Why Regenerative Agriculture Is Rewriting Vineyard Economics

    April 22, 2026
    Industry & Culture

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

    March 25, 2026

    Wine tells you less about its contents than orange juice. The EU now mandates full ingredient disclosure. The United States has not followed, and the gap is widening.

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    The Thirsty Vine: What Regulated Deficit Irrigation Actually Buys

    February 18, 2026

    Before the sun has cleared the trellis line, a viticulturist in Fresno walks the headland to the irrigation controller mounted on a…

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    The Carbon-Neutral Wine Question: What IWCA Certification Actually Promises

    January 21, 2026

    Open the membership page of the International Wineries for Climate Action and the document is laid out the way a tax code…

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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?

    June 11, 2025

    The crown cap is the tell. Lift a bottle of pétillant naturel out of an ice bucket and what stares back is…

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