Thursday, October 19, 2006

Biodynamic Producers - a list

Having been invited to talk on the You & Yours BBC Radio4 programme about biodynamic wines, I thought it would be useful to try to put together a list of producers who use these methods. (I would welcome recommendations of others that would enable me to update this list). To find out where these producers' wines are available, I'd recommend wine-searcher. Alternatively, Artisan Wines of Chester are currently currently offering a biodynamic box with 12 bottles from four producers at a special price of £95 - a saving of £16. The producer speaking for the biodynamic cause is Vanya Cullen who'll be at the other end of a phone line at the vineyard in Margaret River in Western Australia while we unscrew the cap from her brilliant Diana Madeline 2003 Cabernet-Merlot (available at £29 from Noel Young)

For more information on biodynamic wines and how they are made, go to this section of Dr Jamie Goode's excellent Wine Anorak site or to the Biodynamic Agricultural Association which covers all manner of biodydynamic farming.

The following producers are all wholly or at least partially biodynamic.

Australia
Cassegrain
Castagna
Cullen
Jasper Hill
Robinvale
The Carlei Green Vineyards

Austria
Nikolaihof Wachau
Weingut Geyerhof

Chile
Santa Emiliana
VOE (Antiyal )

France

Alsace
Bott Geyl
Eugene Meyer
Kreydenweiss
Marc Tempe
Marcel Deiss
Martin Schaetzel
Ostertag
Pierre Frick
Weinbach
Zind Humbrecht

Bordeaux
Château Gombaude-Guillot
Château Le Grave (Fronsac)
Falfas (Côtes du Bourg)
Haut-Nouchet
La Tour Figeac (St Emilion)
Lagarette

Burgundy
A. et P. de Villaine
Chateau de la Tour (in part)
Domaine de la Romanée Conti (in part)
Domaine La Soufrandiere (in part)
Dominique et Catherine Derain
Emmanuel Giboulot
Jean-Claude Rateau
JM Brocard, Chablis (in part)
Lafon
Leflaive
Leroy
Pierre Morey
Thierry Guyot
Trapet

Champagne
Alain Reaut
Erick de Sousa
Erik Schrieber
Francoise Bedel
Jacques Selosse
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Larmandier-Bernier
Leclapart
Raymond-Boulard (in part)

Jura
Andre et Mireille Tissot

Languedoc Roussillon
Beauthorey
Domaine Cazes
Domaine Lèon Barral
du Traginer
Fontedicto
Gauby

Loire
Catherine et Pierre Breton
Château Tour Grise
Clos de Ch. Gaillard
Clos Roche Blanche (Touraine)
Coulée de Serrant
Dom de la Sansonniere
Dom Saint Nicholas (Fiefs Vendeens)
Domaine de l'Ecu
Domaine du Closel (in part)
Domaine Filliatreau (in part)
Domaine Saint Nicolas
Huet (Vouvray)
Chateau de Roquefort

Provence
Château Romanin
Domaine de Trevallon
Domaine Sainte-Anne (Bandol)

Rhône
Chapoutier
Clos du Joncuas
Domaine de Villeneuve
Domaine Jacqueline André
Domaine Montirius
Domaine Viret
Eric Saurel
Marcoux (Châteauneuf)

Germany
Freiherr Heyl Zu Herrnsheim
Prinz zu Salm-Dalberg & Schloss Wallhaüsen
Weingut Eymann
Weingut Hahnmühle
Weingut Sander
Weingut Wittmann

Italy
Cascina degli Ulivi
Cascina degli Ulivi (Piedmont)
Do Zenner (Sicily)
Gulfi Ramada (Sicilia)
Josko Gravner (Friuli Venezia Giulia)
La Biancara
La Castellada (Friuli Venezia Giulia)
Leone de Castris
Massavecchia (Tuscany)
Nuova Cappellata (Piedmont)
Ocone
Radikon (Friuli Venezia Giulia)
Teobaldo Cappellano (in part)
Trinchero (Piedmont)
Vadopivec (Friuli Venezia Giulia)
Zenato

New Zealand
Millton (Gisborne)
Providence Vineyards
Seresin

Slovenia
Movia

Spain
Albet I Noya
Alvaro Palacios
Compania de Vinos Telmo Rodriguez
Descendientes de José Palacios
Dominio de Atauta (Ribera del Duero)
Dominio de Pingus
Mas Estela

USA
Araujo
Benziger
Black Sears (in part)
Brick House Vineyards
Ceago Vinegarden
Cooper Mountain Vineyards
Coturri Winery
Frey
Littorai (in part)
Patianna Organic Vineyards
Robert Sinskey

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