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
.
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