We’re hearing the word “green” thrown around quite a bit these days, in reference to everything from household cleaners to transportation. But not too long ago, when I started my career in the wine industry, it was much less often that I heard customers asking which wines were organically produced, and the word biodynamic hardly ever came up. Today, customers ask for organic, biodynamic or “green” wines all the time, so much so that we’ve developed a new system for calling them out on the shelves.
Here at Gary’s, we’ve begun identifying wines that we know to be either organically, biodynamically, or sustainably farmed with “Gary’s Green Selections” tags. It can be tricky to navigate the intricacies of the terminology (after all, “organic wine” has an entirely different meaning than “wine made from organic grapes,”) but we think that sharing this information is at least a step in the right direction toward being ecologically-informed wine drinkers.
So this month, in celebration of Earth Day and all things deferential to Mother Nature, we tip our hats to the wineries that, in some form or other, have “gone green” in the best sense of the word.
