organic wines

Chateau Potelle makes their better wines without adding any yeast, fining or filtration. Not sure if this meets your definition of "organic" or not. Try the Mount Veeder Zinfandel VGS if it does.

John

There are a lot of wines out there which are produced organically, but do not explicitly say so on the label. One example I can think of is Tablas Creek, which received the certification in January. There is still no mention of it on the bottle, though. It's one of my favorite wineries and the fact that it is organic is a plus.

Dimitri

True, plus there's the biodynamic producers. A lot of top European growers practice some of these methods. While certification ( Demeter & Biodivin are the big groups, though not every biodynamic producer goes for certification)is not exactly the same as organic certification, it's pretty close. While I find some of these practices bizarre, there's no arguing that these producers turn out a lot of quality wine. I think this list is mostly accurate, though very incomplete:

Austria: Nikolaihof

France Burgundy: Leroy, Lafon, Brocard Alsace: Deiss, Zind Humbrecht ,Frick , Ostertag, Weinbach Loire: Coulée de Serrant, Huet, Breton (both?), Clos Roche Blanche, Rhône: Chapoutier Provence : Sainte-Anne

USA : Frey Dale

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Fetzer Vineyards in California is primarily organic and a leader in the organic market although they do not state this on most of their labels...below is a link to an Ottawa Citizen article that you should find of interest.

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Coturri makes a number of wines though not labeled as organic are made using organic fruit, no yeast, chemicals or sulfites are added. The wines can be terrific or challenging. Bi!!

Just so we're clear, Fetzer is generally supportive of organic farming techniques but Fetzer wines are not "organic" in the sense of not adding sulfites. Even the Fetzer label targeted to the organic crowd, Bonterra, is only organic in the grape growing, not the winemaking. As others have noted, organic grape growing in California is expanding and there are many wines made from fruit grown in that manner, most of which don't note that fact on their labels. True "organic wines" in the no-sulfites-added meaning are few and far between and, in my experience, not worth looking for. I believe the fact that such wines are generally poor is the reason mainstream winemakers hesitate to put the word "organic" on their labels, even when it refers only to vineyard management. As we've seen here, there is wide confusion of what "organic" means on a label.

- Mark W.

I beleive that in the US the FDA or the Dept of Agriculture has a standard by which organic farming and food production is measured. It is my understanding that the process and ongoing maintainence required to label a product as "Organic" is quite extensive and expensive so many may make "Organic" wines but few label it as such due to the regulatory process being so onerous. Bi!!

No, that's really not right. "Organic wine" requires the use of no chemicals in the winemaking process and that includes sulfites. Very few wineries make wines without adding sulfites and fewer yet make

- Mark W.