Hi Guys!
I saw this article and thought of you all. Foreign grapes are among the dirtiest twelve fruits and vegetables available in terms of pesticide content when consumed; this is because many nations have yet not prohibited many of the really bad pesticides (e.g., DDT is still used in South America to my knowledge). Organic wine doesn't seem as good (small production/immature producers?), or maybe there just aren't as many available yet (though Cory and I are certainly looking more at these wines, well at least we were before I got prego), but I'm sure this market is bound to grow. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy this article, from the weather channel oddly, about it, which has some suggestions at the end. Just for the record, I think biodynamics are a bit goofy, but I'm all for wine that doesn't have pesticides in it.
On a personal note, we miss you all and wine club tons already! We have yet to find a restaurant around here that even carries a real wine list (how snobby does that sound???!), so it is going to be a lot of dining and drinking at home! Some of the restaurants actually carry some of the local wine; there are several wine regions close by (Eerie/Niagara/Finger Lakes) so I suppose we'll be taking some trips around there to taste after the baby's born. You all are of course welcome to join us any time! Hope you all are doing well! Oh, and I hope that Matt and Alisha give us some details about their time in Sonoma soon!
Best, Nicole
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Nice to hear from you Nicole; we all miss you too. We need to get another wine group scheduled so we can all toast you in absentia.
On the natural wine topic, my cousin and her husband live on a vineyard in Napa that grows biodynamic wine, which is receiving attention in CA. (Biodynamic is the agricultural tip of the iceberg of anthroposophy.)
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