Let's be honest, shopping for wine can be a bit of a mystery. Even for some of the most experienced shoppers, purchasing a new bottle is always a risk. The best we can do? Try to understand the terms ...

Some of the wine world’s big names have been farming biodynamically for years: Domaine Romanée Conti, M. Chapoutier, and Boisset to name a few. Yet, one of my favorite biodynamic farmers is the humble ...

Taking a walk through the vineyards at Montinore Estate in Oregon’s Willamette Valley isn’t so striking for what’s there, but more for what isn’t. Beyond some production equipment and a few sheds, the ...

Let me start with full disclosure: I'm predisposed to liking biodynamic wine. (My rationale for this assertion is spectacularly unscientific. See footnote *** below.) Yet I haven’t written much about ...

We've heard wine described as "biodynamic," and we definitely know it's a good attribute. Sort of like calling it organic or sustainable. But if you pressed us for more info, we'd probably turn a ...

When the subject of biodynamic grape-growing comes up, nonbelievers and the fearful lob terms like new age, hippie, wizardry and witchcraft (neither of the last two in the good sense), and a few other ...

Winemakers have produced wines organically for thousands of years, but over the last century, new methods have been introduced to gain greater control of the winemaking process, reduce risk and create ...

Alois Lageder (pronounced "ah-loh-IS lah-GAY-der") is the fourth generation of his family to manage this eponymous winery in the northeastern Italian province of Alto Adige. The region belonged to ...