How Biodynamic principles are being used to perfect wine

He prescribed a number of nine “preparations” to help farming. The primary and most famous preparation 500 includes the spitzing of the farm with fertilizer each year to increase microbial and fungal activity in the soil.

“Fertilizer is filled with growth forces, and really microbially various and the way of transformation is very good, Mud says Mudaly.

“Nothing like cow fertilizer is visible. Really dark, almost black, a colloidal substance and we use it to the hectare about 85 grams. A very strong preparation.”

After passing the solstice, the fender will prun and cover the wounds with a paste made of fertilizer, clay and diatoma soil mixed with nettle or casuarina tea.

Other preparations focus on compost additions, including animal skulls filled with yarrow and dandelion flowers filled with deer blades.

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One review The grapes of biodiversity and traditionally made wines were inconsistent between the grapes, fruit juice and wine composition. And absolutely exist No definite science Connecting lunar phases and plant physiology.

However, there are a few interesting glows in the scientific press limited to biotinamics, including findings that show that biotinamic wines are better.

“Wines from biotinically produced fruits have been defined as more complex, fresh and live than traditional wines, or he says. to work In Academic Wine Magazine Oeno.

One analysis 128.182 From French wine review, although most of the ratings were not completely blind, the average of bioderage drops was 12 percent higher, that is, the commentators are perhaps prone to unconscious prejudice.

Organic and biodiversity grapes offer 18 percent less efficiency compared to traditional grape bonds, 2019 Systematic Review. This can be an advantage, in terms of flavor, because smaller grape bundles ripen better.

More antioxidant phenol and increasingly more and more affecting the grapes, the taste of a wine and the sense of mouth. long -lasting. Other studies have not reported a significant difference compared to traditionally grown grapes.

On the sustainability side, organic farms containing biodiversity farms have an average of 30 percent more species variety and 50 percent more organisms. A meta-analysis. Another Four -year field trial German Riesling Hang found that biodiversity has been writhing with more worms and has better fertility than traditional and organic grape bonds.

Chris Carpenter, a biodiversity wine producer, said that he adopted the application in Lark Hill Winery near Canberra to enrich the old, exhausted, acidic lands, so he can enlarge the Austrian Grüner ivy.

Believes that biodiversity wines are “amazing ve and very different from traditional things, while Carpenter takes the dogma of Steiner with a pinch of salt.

“Some are testing time and some are not at all, or he says.

“I probably conflict with the pure practitioners of biodinamics here, because I prefer to treat it and to apply good science and evidence -based things to our vineyards.”

Carpenter, for example, was not convinced by preparing 501 in the sun where grinding quartz or silver was released and applied to crops to increase photosynthesis. “This sounds a little more like homeopathy, or he says.

An end to workHowever, the application of silica to Cabernet-Sauvignon grapes increased vine growth and caused a darker, more opaque red, which was more dense in flavor and aroma.

According to academic Dr John Paull, even if there is no scientific consensus on biotinamic wines, Australia has the world’s second highest biodiversity agricultural hectares behind Germany.

And practitioners swear to that.

“Grapes are healthier, stronger, wines better taste, Mud says Mudalay. “Evidence is in pudding.”

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