Beyond organic wine

Through better management of soil health we create a breathing biome that feeds our vines. By forgoing the use of pesticides and using low or no-tilling of the soil we increase the organic matter in our vineyards. This directly impacts the nutrient density, the antioxidant properties of our fruit and the complexity of our wines. With complexity born of nutrient density, born of biologically alive soil, our wines are better. 

We call it The Good Juice.

Agriculture is the climate solution. Wine is our first step.

Soil management is key to our global agricultural security and health. Vinocity Selections and our growing suite of collaborative projects is the convergence point of agricultural sales. Wine is our expertise so supporting grape farmers who see the climate-solutions in their vineyards is our focus. We want to continue to sell these agricultural products for generations. To ensure this we, as a society, need new intention. New understanding. New motivations and incentives.

what’s agriculture’s role?

Organic matter in soil has weight. It holds carbon. By carefully managing the soil to increase organic matter and ensure it retains its stores of carbon we can greatly reduce atmospheric carbon.

This means shifting from conventional farming to:

• no tillage

• diverse cover crops

• in-farm fertility (no external nutrients)

• no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers

• multiple crop rotations

The math:

If 1/4 of agricultural land globally (1.2 billion acres) can be converted to regenerative farming practices we would have the solution to our climate crisis. This would amount to enough sequestered carbon to fix the atmosphere, and then some.

Currently, agricultural land sits at around 1.8% organic material. That’s roughly 18,000 pounds an acre. With regenerative farming we can add roughly .5% organic matter to the soil per year. There’s an upper limit to how much organic material you can have in soil but that number is over 10%. To succeed we would need to strive for a 5% increase in soil organic matter over 15 years. That’s 50,000 lbs/acre. So, 1.2 Billion acres (1/4 of total global agricultural land) with the addition of 5% organic matter we will have sequestered 600 gigaton of Carbon.

Climate reset.