Healthy Vines, Pure Wines: Methods in Organic, Biodynamic, Natural, and Sustainable Viticulture

The book focuses on the oldest and most famed wine-producing areas in California's Sonoma/Napa/North Bay region, compiling practices and examples of sustainable operations. It includes examples of wineries and vineyards, such as Raymond Vineyards, Buena Vista, Carneros, Benziger, and Kendell Jackson, and discusses different growing methods and standards, such as the Demeter Wine Processing Standard, dry growing, organic, bio-dynamic, and innovative production and bottling methods. Sonoma County is committed to becoming the nation's first 100% sustainable wine region through a three-phased program to be completed by 2020. Wineries are becoming more integrated into the community as hosts of community events, dances, farmers markets, and agritourism partnerships with surrounding stakeholders to help travelers minimize their use of fossil fuels.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 10 June 2021
Publisher: Business Expert Press

Focusing on California's greater Sonoma/Napa/North Bay region, the oldest and most renowned wine-producing areas in the New World, we will compile practices and examples of wine country's most exemplary sustainable operations. Being in a very well-established and affluent part of the US, we feel that solutions forged here can help expand both the understanding of how best practices can be achieved and the pitfalls to be avoided on the road to greater sustainability in many a wine region around the world.

Example wineries and vineyards include Raymond Vineyards, Buena Vista, Carneros, Benziger, and Kendell Jackson, and we will focus on different growing methods and standards such as the Demeter Wine Processing Standard, dry growing, organic, bio-dynamic, and innovative production and bottling methods that minimize waste by recycling as much as possible. We have been learning a lot in California about conserving water during a prolonged drought and have made strides in water conservation in agriculture and viticulture. Sonoma County is committed to becoming the nation's first 100% sustainable wine region through a three-phased program to be completed by 2020. Wineries are becoming more integrated into the community as hosts of community events, dances, farmers markets, and agritourism partnerships with surrounding stakeholders to help travelers minimize their use of fossil fuels while here. Ways that the wine sector is intersecting with tourism to benefit the environment will be highlighted.

This book is the second I have been involved with regarding sustainability in the wine industry, the first being a collaboration between myself, Professor Robert Girling, and Heather Gordy called The Good Company: Sustainability in Hospitality, Tourism, and Wine. I have also very recently been working on a book about sustainability in the hospitality industry.

Weight: 282g
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781637420300