I’ve spent a little bit of my guest blogging time extemporizing on certain things that I think sometimes need a little more extemporization. I realized that many people reading this wonderful website and Jeff’s blog might only partially be aware that we make wine at all in BC and that there are producers here who are fully certified organic, biodynamic and energy efficient. It’s not that difficult a place to be that way. So I thought that I’d introduce you to a few with a series of articles about some of the organic and biodynamic producers we have here in BC. Perhaps it can serve as a prelude to the Wine Blogger’s Conference to be held here in 2013.  (It’s also a subtle way to get Jeff to travel a little farther north and maybe add some of these producers to the “List”, hint hint…) Continue reading “BC’s Conscious Producers: Part 1” »

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The Wine Bloggers Conference wrapped up recently in Charlottesville, Virginia and I was very sad to not be able to attend this year’s conference. I was hoping to go and had voted for that destination as a location at the previous year’s conference. I followed friends who were there on Twitter and Facebook as best as I could. I was also following because Penticton, BC (in the Okanagan Valley) had been shortlisted to host the conference in 2012. Continue reading “Being Proud of Home” »

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Matthew Domingo, Ben Simons, Beverly McKenzie, Luke Whittall, and Nick DiBona. This gang of five is our present line-up of guest bloggers. They’ve all inspired me, did a little bit of inspiring each other, and now we’ve created a place for them to share inspired ramblings as guest bloggers on ConsciousWine. Continue reading “Who are ConsciousWine’s Guest Bloggers?” »

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This is something that I’ve been mulling around for a while and I thought that readers of ConsciousWine.com might appreciate it, especially in light of Jeff’s previous posts about “natural wine” and this website’s ethos toward organic and Biodynamic® farming. To be honest, when I first met Jeff at the Wine Blogger’s Conference in Walla Walla in 2010, the idea of ConsciousWine.com got me thinking even more about this new paradigm and it seems appropriate that I present it first on his wonderful site. Continue reading “Natural Design Theory: Why Balance and Chickens Matter” »

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