Robert Hall's Remarkably Revealing Study about Regenerative–and Biodynamic–Viticulture

A definitive study shows the many environmental AND economic benefits of organic and biodynamic grape growing

It would not be an understatement to say that this is perhaps The Most Important Organic and Biodynamic Study of the Year in the U.S.–because they measured so much.

There were soil health benefits, carbon benefits and economic benefits, study leaders told an online audience in a webinar sponsored by European wine climate change groups including Porto Protocol (based in Spain) and the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation (based in U.K.)

There was tons of data over three years comparing a regenerative/BD site to a control site–really good data.

As an extra special bonus French organic viticultural expert Emmanuel Bourguignon (son of two famous French viticulture gurus, Lydia and Claude Bourguignon) commented on the study, asking pertinent questions at the end of presentation.

You can see the whole thing laid out in the video above.

For those who are bottom line minded, here’s the money shot.

I’ll be writing about this more for the December issue of Grape and Wine, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, enjoy the video which is full of great insights.

The Biodynamic Angle Is Being Overlooked

What’s curious about it is that everyone’s calling it the regen organic study but in fact, they used biodynamic compost and preps…so I think they need to do another study with one site only regen and one site bd. We should be so lucky.