Comments on: Biodynamic Wine in Chile: More Questions than Answers

By: Mike Veseth

Mike Veseth — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:12:11 +0000

Obsession to make great wine — nothing wrong with that!

By: RobLL

RobLL — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:18:35 +0000

I suspect that the obsessive (often a good quality) attention to details may account for the great wines from the “bio” folks.

By: Sherman

Sherman — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:00:17 +0000

So in speaking with a husband and wife winemaking (and winery owning) team who specialize in BioD wines, she describes their adherence to the principles of BioD as “over the top fanatics.” He cringes a bit and (later) I ask him about that cringe — and his reaction (like many husbands) is to support his wife while backpedaling a bit.

He didn’t like to use the religion analogy when talking about their following the tenets of Dr. Steiner and said that it brought another controversial aspect to an already “testy” subject.

Truly, I don’t care much what the winemaker believes in to produce his wine, whether he’s a Presbyterian, Democrat or card-carrying Wiccan. As long as what is in the bottle delivers something special, let them use their own special recipes and production methods.

Personally, I’m getting rather tired of wine geeks around the world debating over how many angels dance on the head of the BioD pin. Eventually, the market place will sort out who the winners and losers will be — by voting with their dollars.

By: Morten Pedersen

Morten Pedersen — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:17:57 +0000

The strength of Chilean wine is exactly as you say its low price and good quality, so we’ll let the future show us what is going forward with respect to the biodynamic wine.