Why did we decide to import and sell organic wines as early as 1983?
We realized what effects industrial agriculture had on the quality of its products even before we started studying the subject of wine. After numerous scandals in the food and wine industry, its disadvantages are more apparent today than they ever were before. Since we grew up in the country, where artificial fertilizers and chemicals were unknown, and later worked in the restaurant business, where we learned to appreciate good food and good wine, our decision to search for and provide only “honest, clean, pure wines” was a logical consequence of this.
In order to discover these “New Wines,” we had to leave the “roads most travelled by” in those famous wine estates which were known everywhere and above all we had to avoid mass-produced wines. During our trips to the countries in Europe which produce wine, which began in 1982, we found and are still finding wine-growers and wineries who produce wine the way we think it should be done and as a result of this:
Do not use any herbicides, chemical synthetic sprays and artificial fertilizers, since these not only help to destroy the sensitive biotope of the “monoculture of the vineyard,” they pollute the ground water and the wine as well with pesticide residues.
Strive for lower yields than those permitted by law, since the fewer the grapes that grow on a vine, the higher the content of vitamins, sugar, minerals and trace elements, which together create the fruit and the taste of a wine.
Do not carry out must concentration by vacuum vaporization, reverse osmosis or cryogenic wine treatment.
Do not pretend that the wine has matured in oak barrels by mixing oak chips in with the wine.
Harvest and select the grapes manually when they are completely ripe.
Do not use any chemicals and enzymes (to maintain or intensify the color, to increase the amount of the juice or to process rotten grapes), any chemical fining methods or artificial preservatives in their wine cellars.
Our wines are unique natural products, which reflect the “terroir” (soil, varietal, climate) perfectly.
Unlike other wine merchants, we offer our customers only those wines which were bottled at the original wine estate, since this means that we obtain the best wines from the wine-growers and the origins of each wine can be traced back to the winery which produced it.
Erich Hartl
hartl@weinpur.de
http://www.organicwinepure.com/
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We realized what effects industrial agriculture had on the quality of its products even before we started studying the subject of wine. After numerous scandals in the food and wine industry, its disadvantages are more apparent today than they ever were before. Since we grew up in the country, where artificial fertilizers and chemicals were unknown, and later worked in the restaurant business, where we learned to appreciate good food and good wine, our decision to search for and provide only “honest, clean, pure wines” was a logical consequence of this.
In order to discover these “New Wines,” we had to leave the “roads most travelled by” in those famous wine estates which were known everywhere and above all we had to avoid mass-produced wines. During our trips to the countries in Europe which produce wine, which began in 1982, we found and are still finding wine-growers and wineries who produce wine the way we think it should be done and as a result of this:
Do not use any herbicides, chemical synthetic sprays and artificial fertilizers, since these not only help to destroy the sensitive biotope of the “monoculture of the vineyard,” they pollute the ground water and the wine as well with pesticide residues.
Strive for lower yields than those permitted by law, since the fewer the grapes that grow on a vine, the higher the content of vitamins, sugar, minerals and trace elements, which together create the fruit and the taste of a wine.
Do not carry out must concentration by vacuum vaporization, reverse osmosis or cryogenic wine treatment.
Do not pretend that the wine has matured in oak barrels by mixing oak chips in with the wine.
Harvest and select the grapes manually when they are completely ripe.
Do not use any chemicals and enzymes (to maintain or intensify the color, to increase the amount of the juice or to process rotten grapes), any chemical fining methods or artificial preservatives in their wine cellars.
Our wines are unique natural products, which reflect the “terroir” (soil, varietal, climate) perfectly.
Unlike other wine merchants, we offer our customers only those wines which were bottled at the original wine estate, since this means that we obtain the best wines from the wine-growers and the origins of each wine can be traced back to the winery which produced it.
Erich Hartl
hartl@weinpur.de
http://www.organicwinepure.com/
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