Club — Organic producer

This month we discuss producers who are practising and producing champagne made using mainly organic methods and also push past this and look at what other ideas are being implemented in the winery and vineyard in this month’s theme – ‘Beyond Organics’   To refresh your knowledge, ‘Organics’ is the absence of use of pesticides, fungicides and fertilisers as well as using healthy viticulture practices which are, planting grasses and other plants between rows to absorb heavy rainfall and offset disease like botrytis and ploughing the soil to aerate it and provide better drainage overall. This organic approach results in a...

In this Edition, we turn our attention to the 'Unsung Heroes' in Champagne and look at why they use lower dosage in their champagne. For us they are like the Clark Kent’s of the champagne world – They are the Superstar Growers these are the guys and girls who care about what they do and want you to see it in their wines. Which highlights, the first part of the theme – telling the story of ‘The Unsung Heroes’. The second part of our selection of your wines for this month focuses on dosage level and what that refers to on...