Part 3: The Wine Alchemy Biodynamic Directory™

Who are the BD producers and where are they? Now in its 7th year, the Directory lists over 450 BD producers worldwide, organised by country and region. Where they have a website, I’ve included the link.

You’ll see that France is the heartland, but BD is expanding rapidly in the rest of the Old World and the New World too. When I started this list in 2001, BD producers were a lot fewer and they were largely confined to France and California, but everywhere the momentum is growing.

I also indicate the status of BD credentials. This is straightforward where producers are certified, e.g. by Biodyvin or Demeter, as their membership is a matter of public record. It is more difficult to establish status with those producers that are not certified. I’ve been fortunate to visit a large number of BD producers personally, but inevitably I also have to rely on others and follow up by telephone or email contact.

Fortunately, the community that produces and enjoys BD wine is often a close one and it continues to give me a lot of help, support and recommendations. One of the happy consequences of this is that I have met wine producers, wine writers and wine enthusiasts all over the world! I am particularly grateful to René Piamonte and Martin Abenel for South America, Max Allen for Australia, Francis Boulard for France and Italy.

If you know of any BD producers that are not on this list then please send me their details and I’ll be pleased to check it out and add them. I am aware of the perils of greenwashing and I do remove entries that are clearly not BD in some respect.

Finally, as with any Directory, a listing can only ever be a work in progress and is unlikely to ever be definitive. The Directory is updated periodically to keep the information as current as possible. New producers will be added, new websites will be constructed and, sadly, perhaps some of those listed won’t stay the distance.

Finally, this Directory is available as a downloadable pdf, its purpose is to help those in the BD producer community and to help spread the word about Biodynamic wine. It’s free, but with just one caveat: all I ask is that you respect my work and copyright ©. If you want to publish the Directory in full or in part then please, out of courtesy, ask me. Sharing is good; plagiarism and theft not so, meaning that I have successfully defended copyright in the past.

Enjoy!

You can also download a Biodynamic Bibliography as
a pdf in Part Four .