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Regenerative Viticulture
Viticulture faces a turning point. We are beginning to realise that the way wine grapes are being grown is not truly sustainable. And in the face of climate chaos, the careful matching of variety to place is experiencing instability.
But viticulture is not unique in this regard. Agriculture in general is facing a challenge of sustainability. The great strides in producing more food in the 20th century resulted in ways of farming that, while they greatly increased yield, did it in an unsustainable way. One solution that has been proposed is regenerative farming, which involves seeing farms as ecosystems, including the important biology taking place in soils, and getting them to work with fewer or no inputs.
Regenerative viticulture is the application of regenerative approaches to farming to vineyards. There is no recipe. Rather, it’s about taking the regenerative toolkit and applying it in intelligent ways, taking into account the characteristics of the place. Key themes include avoiding tillage, which damages soil life, using cover-cropping, integrating animals into the vineyard where possible, and farming soils not vines. Viticulture is notoriously input heavy, but regenerative viticulture holds promise to make vineyards truly sustainable.
This is the first book specifically to address regenerative viticulture, and it is written from a scientific perspective, but in a very accessible, readable way.
But viticulture is not unique in this regard. Agriculture in general is facing a challenge of sustainability. The great strides in producing more food in the 20th century resulted in ways of farming that, while they greatly increased yield, did it in an unsustainable way. One solution that has been proposed is regenerative farming, which involves seeing farms as ecosystems, including the important biology taking place in soils, and getting them to work with fewer or no inputs.
Regenerative viticulture is the application of regenerative approaches to farming to vineyards. There is no recipe. Rather, it’s about taking the regenerative toolkit and applying it in intelligent ways, taking into account the characteristics of the place. Key themes include avoiding tillage, which damages soil life, using cover-cropping, integrating animals into the vineyard where possible, and farming soils not vines. Viticulture is notoriously input heavy, but regenerative viticulture holds promise to make vineyards truly sustainable.
This is the first book specifically to address regenerative viticulture, and it is written from a scientific perspective, but in a very accessible, readable way.
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257 pages, Paperback
Published April 18, 2022
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August 13, 2022
Jamie Goode is one of the best technical science writers I know, but this self-published book needs a few more passes for edits and structure. There isn't a lot of material on regenerative viticulture, so kudos to him for going first into a subject matter that mainstream book publishers won't touch until they determine a large (and profitable) audience exists.
January 16, 2025
Introduction book on regenerative viticulture. It stays away from the technicalities and the authors refers to another one of his books for that. Nonetheless, as a starting grape grower it showed me the importance of the soil and it gives me a toolkit how to improve/maintain it.
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