PIWI grapes cross vinifera with wild American and Asian vines to carry the resistance vinifera never had. The German Wine Institute puts the payoff plainly: plant-protection measures cut by up to 80 percent.
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A high trellis lets the flock stay in the vines year-round, ending herbicide use and cutting tractor passes. The catch is methane, which is why the real case for vineyard sheep is land-use efficiency, not a greener bottle.
Walk a California wine aisle in any city and the bottles will be carrying small printed seals on their back…
Regenerative viticulture is rewriting vineyard economics from the soil up. At Tablas Creek and across California, fewer clusters per vine are delivering higher profits, raising a question the industry cannot ignore.
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.
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.
At Romanée-Conti, the most-priced vineyard on earth, the cellar team buries cow horns packed with manure across the monopole each…