How does the way we grow and make and drink wine fit into a historical and ecological perspective? What is the importance of organic or biodynamic or regenerative ways of farming grapes? How are we related to grapes, and what does that mean for our relationship with all of nature? Is the climate crisis really a cultural crisis? And what are the solutions to the cultural climate crisis that now threatens both our wines and our lives?

These and many other questions are addressed in this special anniversary episode in which host and creator Adam Huss gives a retrospective and introspective review of the things we learned in the last year on the Organic Wine Podcast.

Books referenced include:

The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry

The Overstory, by Richard Powers

The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward E. Baptist

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, by David Montgomery

Tending The Wild, by M. Kat Anderson

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Sponsor:

Centralas Wine

https://www.centralaswine.com/

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