Tag: Organic Wine

Organic Wine The laws to certify a wine as 'organic' are different from country to country, so a wine that is organic in one country may not be in another. An organic wine is made with grapes grown without the use of industrially produced fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides. During the wine making process, there is little or no manipulation with such technologies as reverse osmosis, excessive filtration, and flavour additives. Usually fermentation takes place with the use of wild yeasts instead of the cultured varieties. The use of sulphites is very hotly debated. Many wine makers claim the addition of sulphites is necessary to produce a stable wine, while others insist their use is not required. (It is important to note that sulphites occur naturally in wine as a...