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Touring the Douro Valley with the Symington Port Family

Sante

From Dow’s Quinta do Bomfim to the home of Graham’s , Quinta dos Malvedos, we tasted the Symington’s four port brands and their newer dry wines, walked the vine rows, and explored the vineyard estates.?. Charles and his team focus on the micro-terroir of small vineyard blocks. Photo credit: Deborah Grossman.

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Earth Day, Living With The land

The Wine Knitter

Globally, more wineries than ever before are contributing their efforts to maintain sustainable practices in the vineyard and wine production. Emiliana Organic Vineyards, a pioneer in Chile, is one of the world’s largest organic and biodynamic wine producers. Conserving Biodiversity in the vineyards 4.

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Will Climate Change Lead to More Black Truffles? It’s Complicated.

EATER

Instead, truffle cultivation takes place in a vineyard or other cropland they have on their land. In 2016, Twitter user @Trillburne laid out an imagined neoliberal response to the problems faced by humanity in the 21st century. According to Jacobs, few people are exclusively truffle farmers.

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