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     I have also tasted many incredible wines form Biodaynamic wineries. Many well known and highly regarded vineyards around the world practice Bio D. That being said, there are so many variables that go into making a great wine that it would be hard to point the finger at one aspect of an operation.

Mark

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From: Kevin Moore
Sent: Aug 31, 2009 11:45 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: biodynamic winery

No! As I said, my understanding of grape wines is that they produce the best wines in very infertile soils. Biodynamics, as I understand it feeds the soils to enrich them and so would not produce good wines. I may be wrong, I'm simply questioining if thaty is the best practice fro growing wine grapes.

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From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:31:40 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: biodynamic winery

I'm not understanding why you guys think a bio-dynamic winery is a bad
idea.  I've tasted some absolutely stellar bio-dynamic wines that put
most organic & conventional wine to shame.  Is it the use of the
bio-dynamic preps, planting by the lunar cycles or more a reaction to
the christian mysticism that seems to accompany a lot of biodynamic
growers?

~mIEKAL

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Kevin Moore<aleguy33@yahoo.com> wrote:
> That sounds like a really bad idea to me. I assume he is producing grape
> wines. I'm no expert on grapes, but I have always heard the vines must be
> made to suffer (usually a subsoil crop) to make great wine. Now if he is
> producing wines from other fruits that is another story. I imagine a
> gooseberry winery might benefit a great deal from biodynamic practices.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>
> To: growyourown@earthlink.net; North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:01:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] 2009 meeting
>
> Mark:
>
>      I met one of your clients (I think) late on the last day and talked to
> him only briefly.
>
>      Attendance was very low...perhaps the lowest of any NAFEX meeting I've
> ever been to.
>
>      The meeting was fine, saw a lot of interesting operations and of course
> the climate is near identical to central Calif, very low humidity, very
> little disease or insects.
>
>      Growers (both organic and conventional) are taking a hit due to the
> economy.  One of the most successful growers is having a hell of a time
> finding markets for his peaches!!!
>
>      We did visit a most bizarre (to me) winery who is growing via
> bio-dynamics....has sunk tons of bucks into the operation.  Or I think this
> fellow has a ton of cash he needs to get rid of.
>
>      Overall I had a great time.  Lots of laughs.
>
> ed
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:35 AM, <growyourown@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>   Did anyone out there attend the Nafex meeting in Colorado? Any
>> highlights.
>>
>> Mark
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