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Re: Roundup information
On 09 Jun 1997 13:42:41 GMT, c.shaw@midnet.com (Colin Shaw) wrote:
> As I also said in a previous post
Sorry - I can't find it. I and Deja News both agree that
you have posted four times, coming up with five posts
between us, but that isn't one of them! If you think it
worth it, please e-mail it to me. That seems more
reliable, if not perfect.
>please let us know what label your wine is sold under
>as I for one will not want to drink it.
>
No.
The winery I grow for has never claimed to produce
organic wine. It seems a bit illogical to boycott it
now because some of my grapes at the next harvest will
have been close to some Roundup. None of the other
growers have ever claimed to be organic either. If
the bottle does not claim it is organic, it isn't.
If it does, it might be.
As I am sure you are aware, there are, as yet, very
few organic wines out there. More power to them.
All the ones I know about operate with a very different
climate from my cool maritime/continental - in fact,
they are exclusively warm mediterranean, where the problems
are very different and possible easier to solve. Weeds
don't grow without near-surface water; grapes, being deep
rooted, do.
The only organic wine that has made it to Nova Scotia
so far is the Fetzer Bonterra. Note that this claims
only "orgainically grown" which, of course, does not
necessarily include "organically made." I have drunk it.
It is very good, I am envious. I have also drunk some
"organically made" wines at the Geisenheim Research
Centre in the Rheingau. They were awful.
I would suggest that you check in each and every case
what definition of "organic" your winemaker is using as
it may well not coincide with yours.
The enormous majority of the world's wines are made with
the help (or otherwise, depending on your point of view)
of chemicals of which Roundup appears by far the least
objectionable. And that includes some of the so called
"organically approved" chemicals (e.g. sulphur and copper)
which are acceptable in some jurisdictions. I use both but
would much rather not have to!
Andrew Bennett; Avondale Vineyard
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References:
- Re: Roundup information
- From: newsgate.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!fozzie.mercury.net!news-dc-2.sprintlink.net!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-dc-26.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint@ultra150.ncren.net (Colin Shaw)