Welcome to the Wine for Normal People audio blog. It's a quick reading of post from the

Wine for Normal People blog to satisfy your wine dorkery needs between our

longer podcasts. I'm Elizabeth Schneider, certified Somal, certified specialist of wine and chief normal wine person of wine for normal people.

You can find the written versions and links to these audio blogs as well as post comments on mine for

normal people.com forward slash blog. With that let's get started.

Before I get started I just want to acknowledge that yes I do know that there's a longer podcast on Biodynamics and Organic Wines that we released a while back

but I do think that it's important to

revisit it, especially because I have a better explanation of biodynamics and

probably think it's a little less weird than I used to. So with that, wine of the future and the past.

I love the idea of organic and biodynamic wine and food for that matter.

Perhaps it's because I was raised by a hippie mom.

I knew what Macrobatic meant by the time I was like five.

Or maybe it's because I'm an Earth sign.

But actually, I think it's because the wines often taste great and they do so without

polluting my body or the environment.

Now before I get started on talking about organic and biodynamic wines, I need to define

what they are. Let's start with organic.

Organic farming is about keeping soil healthy and controlling vineyard issues by using naturally occurring stuff to fight off vineyard problems.

For example, you'll see compost instead of chemical fertilizer on the soil,

and they introduce natural predators into the vineyard to eat pests, spiders to eat

nasty bugs, hawks and falcons to eat rodents.

Any sprays are made from ingredients that occur in nature.

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