550. Have Your Wine and Drink It, Too with Todd White
Commune with Jeff Krasno
Commune Media
4.6 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Balance Weekend Retreat with Schuyler Grant & Jeff Krasno in Topanga, CA, April 5-7, 2024.
This weekend retreat is all about practices that cultivate balance in your life. This will include movement (yoga and hiking), focusing the mind (meditation and breathwork), hot and cold therapy (ice plunge and sauna), and enjoying time together in community. Go to onecommune.com/retreat for more info.
In this episode we cover:
00:08:00: How the commercial wine industry operates
00:09:00: The impacts of chemical farming
00:15:00: The 76 additives in commercial wine
00:23:00: What’s the difference between natural and commercial wine?
00:25:00: How yeast is collected in the natural wine fermentation process
00:31:00: How sugar gets into wine
00:34:00: How wine gets its color
00:41:00: Why some winemakers opt to keep sugar in their wines
00:43:00: How to have your wine and drink it too
00:44:00: What is dry farming?
00:48:00: How the irrigation process affects the taste of wine
00:50:00: The advantages of “stressing” plants
00:56:00: Farming with the rhythm of nature
01:06:00: Explaining how alcohol percentages are quantified
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Balance Weekend Retreat with Schuyler Grant & Jeff Krasno in Topanga, CA, April 5-7, 2024.
This weekend retreat is all about practices that cultivate balance in your life. This will include movement (yoga and hiking), focusing the mind (meditation and breathwork), hot and cold therapy (ice plunge and sauna), and enjoying time together in community. Go to onecommune.com/retreat for more info.Balance Weekend Retreat with Schuyler Grant & Jeff Krasno in Topanga, CA, April 5-7, 2024.
This weekend retreat is all about practices that cultivate balance in your life. This will include movement (yoga and hiking), focusing the mind (meditation and breathwork), hot and cold therapy (ice plunge and sauna), and enjoying time together in community. Go to onecommune.com/retreat for more info.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. To drink or not to drink. That is the question, at least for today. |
| 0:18.0 | So there have been two conflicting messages circulating around the wellness sphere about alcohol |
| 0:25.3 | consumption. |
| 0:26.6 | Number one, alcohol is a neurotoxin and a carcinogen at any dosage. |
| 0:33.1 | And number two, alcohol is gabahurgic and in moderation can be a social lubricant that fosters the joy |
| 0:41.8 | and the connection that is central to cultures known for longevity. |
| 0:47.7 | Would it be possible to hold two conflicting thoughts simultaneously? |
| 0:53.2 | Well, today on the show I welcome Todd White, the founder of dry farm |
| 0:57.7 | wines. A dry farm imports wines that are low alcohol, low in sulfites, organic, have no sugar, |
| 1:06.1 | and are bottled by small local wineries in Europe. Now, in our conversation, Todd presents his case for conscious alcohol consumption by taking |
| 1:17.4 | us through the vinification process of dry farms' natural wines. |
| 1:22.6 | Todd explains how the commercial wine industry's practices, including the use of additives and toxic |
| 1:29.8 | chemicals and farming contribute to the negative effects of drinking. And by comparison, Todd |
| 1:36.7 | unpacks how natural winemaking produces both a healthier and better tasting wine. Now, we get deep |
| 1:43.9 | all up in the chemistry of the crucial fermentation |
| 1:48.4 | method in natural winemaking, the use of wild yeast, and how a wine becomes absent of sugar. |
| 1:55.5 | Todd also explains dry farming, the practice of growing, in this case grape vines, without irrigation, and the |
| 2:02.9 | difference between red, white, and even orange wine. Throughout our conversation, we weigh the |
| 2:10.4 | balance between health, consciousness, and enjoyment in life. And Todd emphasizes that the key |
| 2:17.3 | lies in making conscious choices about our |
| 2:20.6 | consumption habits. Okay, before we dive in, I am so very, very grateful to those of you who write |
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