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[Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>]

It's >how< the vines "suffer" that makes the difference.  A severe nutrient 
imbalance is going to give you sick vines and crappy wine.  However, lean, 
but balanced conditions that discourage rampant growth (limiting water and 
nitrogen, for instance) tends to boost soluble solids (aka sugars, Brix) and 
secondary metabolites that are more likely to result in superior wine.

Anton
Southeastern U.S. where the grapes suffer from severe disease pressure and 
hot nights (both bad stresses for wine production)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 31, 2009 11:25 AM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [NAFEX] OT: biodynamic winery
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>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.
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>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
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>Mark:
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>     I met one of your clients (I think) late on the last day and talked to 
> him only briefly.
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>     Attendance was very low...perhaps the lowest of any NAFEX meeting I've 
> ever been to.
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>     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.
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>     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!!!
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>     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.
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>     Overall I had a great time.  Lots of laughs.
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>ed
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>On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:35 AM, <growyourown@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>  Did anyone out there attend the Nafex meeting in Colorado? Any highlights.
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>>>Mark
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