Tag: winegrowing

• 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…

  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

• 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

• Off-Target Herbicide Drift Threatens Vineyards Across U.S.

  

  In my first article for Wine Business Monthly I tackle a topic so important, it threatens the very existence of the US wine we enjoy.

  Michelle Williams

  January 28, 2021

  Wine, wine education, wine tasting

  2 4-D drift, Dicamba drift, EPA, grapegrowing, herbicide drift, herbicide drift vineyard damage, off-target drift, vineyard threats, viticulture, Wine Business Monthly, wine drinking, wine tasting, winegrowing, winemaking