Ethical and Green have written before about the growing market of organic wines. The Organic Wine Journal is a great place to learn about exactly what organic wine is and what the best types are. Recently however we have seen organic wines on the shelves of high street supermarkets.
The team here at Ethical and Green took it upon ourselves to take advantage of Tesco’s fantastic wine offer and buy some organic wine to do some wine tasting! It has to be said that Tesco don’t have the greatest range. In fact they only had one white which was the Organic Australian Chardonnay. To be honest it wasn’t great but then I am not a fan of Chardonnay at the best of times.
The reds were better. A personal favourite was the Bellane Organic Cotes du Rhone Villages. It goes very well with pasta! Another good one was the Terra Viva Rossa- perhaps a little too easy drinking!
Tesco have a fantastic wine offer online at the moment with some wines up to 50% off and there is free delivery on all wines until 5th October.
Quail By Mail said,
October 9, 2008 @ 11:50 am
Channel 4′s ‘Dispatches’ programme recently featured “What’s in your Wine?”. The documentary went over like a lead balloon amongst the wine industry as makers and sellers rely on the mystique of wine as a being a premium product.
What the show revealed, and what organic wine producers already know, is that much of the wine sold worldwide is actually a confection not much better than a sugary soft drink! In other words, so much additivies are added to the grape juice to make the wine taste better, boost the alcohol content, pretty up the colour or masses amounts of sugar to do the job that the grapes should be able to do for themselves.
I’ve been a fan of organic wine for a few years. If you’re curious, watch this fascinating documentary online:
http://www.channel4.com/video/dispatches-whats-in-your-wine/catchup.html