When we say the word "wine" we most often express a system of unquestioned assumptions that excludes the fruit fermentation traditions of everyone throughout all time who has made "wine" from anything besides Vitis vinifera. As we head into 2024, I'm asking us to begin to question those assumptions. Whose definition of wine are we using? Who and what is included and excluded from the dominant definition of wine?
This is a journey through history, enslavement, genocide, marriage, archaeology, culture, love, and truth. This is a journey to discover the soul of wine.
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Re-Defining Wine, Rebuilding A Real Wine Culture - Hermit Woods Winery, New Hampshire
Transitioning To Ecological Viticulture with Zac Brown of Alderlea Vineyards
Wild Grapes, Cosmic Evolution, & Dealing with Eco-Anxiety
Fearless Wine - Picking Frontenac Gris with La Garagista, La Montañela, and Lilith Wines
Adapting To The Future of Wine By Breeding Resistant Varieties in Catalonia - Mireia Pujol-Busquets
Cultivating Life: A Call For A Diversity of Viticultures
Gizem Duyar - Making Wine From Married Vines In Turkey (Vitiforestry & Natural Wine)
Westside Winos - Drinking Local At Offhand Wine Bar
Reforesting The Earth Through Vitiforestry - Etelle Higonnet
For Ever - Beautiful Biodiverse Biodynamic Dry-Farmed AmByth Estate with Gelert Hart
Deborah Parker Wong - Slow Wine USA & Wine’s Ecological Context
Dave Carr - Raging Cider & Mead in Southern California
Don’t Enter The Forest. Become It. Mike Biltonen - Part 2
Walking Through Biodynamic Apostrophe Orchard with Mike Biltonen of Know Your Roots
Brent Mayeaux - Stagiaire Wine & Wine From Here Fair
Marcelo Castro Vera - Making Wine Without Electricity or Sulfites in Mexico
Dan Durica - Hardcore Sustainable, No-Spray Permaculture Vineyard at Dancing Rabbit Ecovilliage Missouri
Xaime Niembro - Vinos Barrigones
Amy Lee - Solving Wine’s Biggest Problem
Jess Hopwood - A Magical Tour of the Okanagan
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