Hafner Kosher Wines - Organic?

Which website did you look at? There are two different Hafner Wines: one in Sonoma and one in Austria. The Austrian one is Kosher is say stuff about being organic. Google on: hafner kosher wine. Jon

Apparently you didn't look carefully.

The website says:

| The careful manufacturing of healty grapes from "Controlled and | integrated viniculture" (a kind of organic cultivation by | EU-regulations) as well as the biological and pure cellar | technology enable many people, who are not in a position to | drink wine because of health reasons, the consumption of Hafner | kosher wines!

BUT - be careful, because that's more or less rubbish. "KIP" (= kontrollierte integrierte Produktion) is *not* organic wine-growing. And if you have health problems with wine, please stay away from any wine. Hafner's (or any kosher or organically grown) wines do contain alcohol - just like any other wine.

M.

Alcohol? How about sulphur, tannins, flavonoids and a myriad other organic substances possibly present in wines that may prove unhealthy to certain individuals allergic to any of these? Admittedly a minuscule minority compared to those with alcohol problems... An entirely different question is whether these so called organically grown wines do contain less of such potentially (for the very few unlucky people) hazardous substances? I have some doubts as to there being any real difference... Anders

Of course.

No.

There's no difference, be they grown normal, organic or produced kosher.

The only difference is for wines labelled "organic wine" in the US: They have no sulfites added (and therefore are extremely rare). What we call organic (or biological) wine here in Europe must be labelled "wine made from organically grown grapes" in the US.

M.