I recently purchased a bottle of Hafner Kosher Wine (Queen Esther - 2002), and on the front label the word "organic" appears (in double-quotes!). I couldn't find anything about this on their website or in searches of newsgroup archives. Can anyone provide any information about this?
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
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