Wine from Sky to Earth: Growing & Appreciating Biodynamic Wine

By Nicholas Joly

Book Overview

From France's greatest winegrower-a chemical free, organic, wine-rich in the vital force of life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911311602
• ISBN13: 9780911311600
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Acres USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Expanded Awareness

Wow! Through this book, Joly invited me to expand my awareness beyond planting a vine, spraying it with the "right" chemicals, harvesting the fruit and making the wine. He stirred my consciousness to recall and reconnect that which I have chosen to forget about this planet, this ever-changing life of whose whole-ness I am an integral part. Based on Rudolf Steiner's concepts and research on agriculture, Joly's book introduced me to biodynamic agriculture. As described in Wine from Sky to Earth, biodynamics "is mainly the task of achieving a deeper understanding of the natural system within which a farm or vineyard is located and from which it receives its life forces." Joly opines, "the key factor in making a good wine is to understand nature and help it - one becomes nature's assistant rather than `a wine maker'." I found my awareness shifting as Joly contends, "it is on the land, in the middle of his vines, that the wine-maker `makes' the wine." I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing a stronger connectivity to his/her vines and wine.

Caring for the wine AND the soil

This is a great book for both, laymen and wine experts, on biodynamic winemaking. Nicolas Joly explains in a very simple way, why it is worth using all our senses at winemaking. Biodynamics respects nature's peculiarities in a positive sense and thus helps the vine to incorporate these specific characteristics into the wine. The origin of the so called "denominacion d'origine controlee". If all farmers, not only wine growers could respect their most cherrished input, the soil, as biodinamic wine growers do, what a wonderful world this would be! No more instransparent subsidies from States to the agribusinesses, no more hunger, and less diseases in the world.Bravo Nicolas! Welcome good wine, great wine.