Wine Alchemy - The Biodynamic Directory

Who are the BD producers and where are they? Now in its 7th year, the Directory now lists over 500 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 most wine producing countries. When I started this list in 2001, BD producers were few and largely confined to France and California, but everywhere the momentum is growing – I’ll probably stop before the list reaches 1,000!

This Directory is a downloadable pdf, its purpose is to help those in the BD producer community and to help spread the word about Biodynamics.

Biodynamics is a broad church so I also attempt to indicate BD credentials. This is straightforward where producers are certified, e.g. by Biodyvin or Demeter, as their membership is a matter of public record, and while certification is an annual event few producers fail it or abandon it (in seven years I can think of a mere handful). It is of course more difficult to establish status with those producers that are not certified, don’t like to be pigeonholed or don’t employ all the practices. I’ve been fortunate to visit a large number of BD producers, but inevitably I also have to rely on information given by others – regardless, all are followed up.

If you know of any BD producers that are not in the Directory list then please send me their details and I’ll be pleased to check them out. I am aware of the perils of greenwashing and I do remove entries that are clearly not BD in some respect – using the word biodynamic on a website or in a merchant catalogue hardly constitutes proof!

As with any Directory, this listing can only ever be a work in progress and cannot be definitive – all I can offer is to be as accurate as I can. The Directory is updated periodically to add new BD producers and update existing producer information. Sadly, though perhaps inevitably, some of those originally listed have not stayed the distance.

Fortunately, the community that both 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 am in contact with wine producers, wine writers and wine enthusiasts all over the world and have an overflowing email box to prove it!

I am particularly grateful to René Piamonte and Martin Abenel for South America, Max Allen in Australia, Francis Boulard for France, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglione in Italy, the Fetzer family for North America, Blair Walter and James Millton in New Zealand and Monty Waldin for general information. There are many more besides –thank you!

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

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