Organic, Biodynamic and Natural Wines

1 – ORGANIC : Organic cultivation is ruled by European Law 203/2012: vines have to be cultivated without using any chemical substances, such as herbicide or insecticide. No GMO must be used. The wine producer has to follow the law and guarantee that producing phases of wine follow just the natural transformation processes. Every company will be checked in order to obtain conformity certificate and will be free to get as closer as possible to the concept of green agriculture.

2 – BIODYNAMIC : Back in the 1920s Austrian Rudolf Steiner invented the biodynamic cultivation and set its three main benchmarks:

• fertility of soil has to be kept to constant levels thanks to the addition of nutritive substances;

• plants have to be kept in healthy conditions, so to be resistant to pests and illnesses;

• products have to meet high quality standards.

Organic wines as well as Biodynamic wines are not ruled by univocal laws. Associations which represent this agricultural philosophy have ruled strict norms about vineyards and wine cellars. As a reference we name three Italian leading associations “La Renaissance d’Appellation”, “ViticolturaBioDinamica”, “Demeter Associazione Italia”.

3 – NATURAL : Companies which follow this philosophy manage their business respecting the balance between the human work and natural cycles, aiming to make producing process as natural as possible. Producers aim to make wine from the local area, a direct product of the land and culture they belong to. The rule they follow is clear and simple:

• Cultivation of autochthon vines

• Manual harvest • Autochthon yeasts

• Fermentation without temperature check

• No clarifying or filtering operation that may alter the biological and natural balance of wines.

This agricultural management of business and production is not ruled by any certification and/or association but it can be equalized to organic and biodynamic processes. Every producer will be free to set a target to their natural and organic products.