Category: viticulture

• Mosel Winegrowers’ Focus On Soil Health Improves Wine Quality

  

  “Important components of vegetation in Reiler Mullay-Hofberg. From cultural land, fallow land, forest and water to humans and animals. Vegetation is the sum of plant formation and plant societies that frow in one area. It is characterized by climate, soil, relief, rock, aquatic content and by the influences of fire, animals and humans,” writes Thorsten Melsheimer, fifth-generation winemaker of Weingut Melsheimer.

  Michelle Williams

  August 6, 2022

  German Wine, Germany, Riesling, Sustainability, viticulture

  biodiversity, fine wine making, German Wine, Mosel, regenerative agriculture, Riesling, soil health, sustainable viticulture, vineyard health, Weingut Immich-Batterieberg, Weingut Melsheimer, Weingut Nik Weis – St. Urbans-Hof, winegrowing

• Wine Enthusiast Article: The ‘Monumental’ Role Soil Microbes Play In Wine

  

  The feature I wrote for the Feb/March edition of Wine Enthusiast Magazine, “Down In the Dirt,” is now digitally available.What do soil microbes have to do with fine wine production? Everything!

  Michelle Williams

  March 2, 2021

  climate change, grape growing, Uncategorized, viticulture, Wine Enthusiast, wine tasting, winegrowing

  biome, climate change, climate impact, drink wine, drought, fine wine, microbes, microbial life, soil biome, soil science, viticulture, water shortage, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, winemaking