Comments on: Harris Organic Wines Celebrates 10th Anniversary http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2009/11/harris-organic-wines-celebrates-10th-anniversary/ Your Guide to Organic, Biodynamic and Natural Wine Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Duncan Harris http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2009/11/harris-organic-wines-celebrates-10th-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-1732 Duncan Harris Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:18:06 +0000 http://www.organicwinejournal.com/?p=1297#comment-1732 There are some similarities between biodynamic Steiner and organic methods. My summation of the steiner methods is that the methods are designed to make you love your vineyard. If you don't have enthusiasm for your vineyard and love your vines, you have no hope of conducting biodynamics. As I love my vineyard, I have no need to practice biodynamics. As to planting vines at a greater depth, this depends of a number of parameters. The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia has all the information require re planting of vines. There are some similarities between biodynamic Steiner and organic methods.
My summation of the steiner methods is that the methods are designed to make you love your vineyard. If you don’t have enthusiasm for your vineyard and love your vines, you have no hope of conducting biodynamics.

As I love my vineyard, I have no need to practice biodynamics.

As to planting vines at a greater depth, this depends of a number of parameters. The Handbook of Horticulture and Viticulture of Western Australia has all the information require re planting of vines.

]]> By: Warren Master http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2009/11/harris-organic-wines-celebrates-10th-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-1657 Warren Master Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:31:24 +0000 http://www.organicwinejournal.com/?p=1297#comment-1657 Just got back from running the wine roads of France - a 25-year obsession. Interestingly, for the first time a met a fair number of wine growers who were using "biodynamic" techniques - which seem to have eclipsed simply organic methods (e.g., planting root stocks far enough down below the top soil so that the roots don't turn back up for their nutrients. Is there a difference, or ae the 2 terms synonymous? Just got back from running the wine roads of France – a 25-year obsession. Interestingly, for the first time a met a fair number of wine growers who were using “biodynamic” techniques – which seem to have eclipsed simply organic methods (e.g., planting root stocks far enough down below the top soil so that the roots don’t turn back up for their nutrients. Is there a difference, or ae the 2 terms synonymous?

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