Biodynamic Wine Tasting

In Biodynamics, farmers make a series of plant mixtures, ferment them underground in unique vessels, and add them to compost piles, all according to moon cycles. The compost is spread in the vineyard, alongside field preparations. The goal: a dynamic crop in a living soil.

And if you haven't heard of Biodynamics, you may be familiar with its offshoot: Organics. The tricky steps of Biodynamics proved difficult to use on a large scale. Some farmers took the primary concept that 'a living soil is best for plants to thrive,' and came up with Organic Farm Theory. Thus, Biodynamic farm theory was a catalyst that jump started the organic farming movement. The elemental parts of Biodynamic farming that highlight the importance of nurturing a living soil were distilled into the basic tenements of Organics in Lord Northbourne's 1940 book, Look to the Land, and Eve Balfour's 1943 book, The Living Soil.

Since then, multiple other farm theories have sprung off of Organics, like Dry Farming, that encourages roots to find the water table to sustain plants in droughts, and Regenerative Farming that has a strict no-plow rule to avoid disturbing the mycelial network that plant roots use to communicate with one another. You've also probably heard of Natural Wine, which is a spin-off of Organics, with the added philosophy of low sulfur use, minimal intervention, and the use of ambient yeasts for fermentation.

At this wine tasting, we explore wine grown with Biodynamics, the sustainable farm theory that led to our modern sustainable landscape....