To the unacquainted, biodynamic can seem like yet another buzzword splashed across our labels; organic winemaking’s more mysterious, moon-dancing cousin. 

Resisting succinct definition, biodynamic viticulture uses living things to grow living things better, with roots in philosophy, the cosmos, and – some would say – sense. Conscious crop rotation and natural pest control, bolstering microbe populations for soil health. Then there’s the slightly more esoteric stuff that triggers skeptics; harvest cycles governed by the phases of the moon, and the like.

Believer or non-believer: we’re not here to convert you. But when leading winemakers and heritage wine-houses, usually ruled inflexibly by the iron mistresses of science and ‘the bottom line’, jump on board, we pay attention. 

Maybe it’s all romance, but it turns out romance is delicious.