Tag: soil biome

• The Dirty Truth Soil Health Plays In Wine

  

  Walking through Joseph Cattin’s Le Clos Madelon Alsatian vineyard, it’s hard to imagine it once being a World War I battleground. The fully covered ground is soft, sponge-like under foot. Chickens forage freely through the vineyard. Indiscriminately extracted plugs of earth reveals moist, living soil teeming with microbial life.

  Michelle Williams

  July 23, 2022

  Uncategorized

  biodiversity, biodynamics, living soil, organic farming, regenerative agriculture, regenerative farming, save the soil, soil biome, soil health, viticulture, winegrowing, winemaking

• 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