Author Archives | Deborah Gavito
Deborah Gavito is the owner of Counter Restaurant in New York City.
What I Learned On My California Wine Trip
January 15, 2009
Organic and biodynamic wine growers don’t feed plants, they feed the soil through the use of compost, cover crops, compost teas, and in biodynamics with biodyanimic preparations (the term biodynamic preparation is intimidating, but they are simply chamomile blossoms, oak bark, dandelion flowers, valerian flowers, yarrow blossoms, stinging nettle and silica.) Compost is made up [...]
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October 13, 2008
“Let’s go to Sanford Winery. They make the best Pinot Noir in California.” – From the very first vineyard stop in the film Sideways. After serving in the Vietnam War Richard Sanford decided to farm grapes, make wine, and as he put it, “reconnect with something more natural than the war experience”. Richard loved and [...]
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July 10, 2010
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