Biodynamic growers rejoice! The successes of alternative agriculture have seldom been more apparent than in the high, broad acclaim for wines of the Coulée de Serrant vineyards. Joly has tapped the rich bounty nature possesses and profited by it.

Here, you will find agricultural methods that are proven and which offer a radically different approach to the destructive, chemical-dependent practices of modern viticulture. As Frank Prial of The New York Times noted, "[Nicolas Joly's] disciples are legion: winemakers from all over Europe come to sit at his feet. Getting to know a great Loire chenin blanc by starting with Saveunieres is like getting to know music by starting with a late Beethoven quartet."

Learn the best biodynamic methods to grow delicious wines from a master grower. Robert Parker, in his Wine Buyer's Guide, rates Joly as "an exceptional producer. [He] is the godfather of Saveuniere. Connoisseurs have long known the legendary longevity and quality of his Coulée de Serrant vineyard." Create your own legendary vintages drawing on his expertise.

Customer Review: Expanded Awareness

Wow! Through this book, Joly invited me to expand my awareness beyond planting a vine, spraying it with the "right" chemicals, harvesting the fruit and making the wine. He stirred my consciousness to recall and reconnect that which I have chosen to forget about this planet, this ever-changing life of whose whole-ness I am an integral part.

Based on Rudolf Steiner's concepts and research on agriculture, Joly's book introduced me to biodynamic agriculture. As described in Wine from Sky to Earth, biodynamics "is mainly the task of achieving a deeper understanding of the natural system within which a farm or vineyard is located and from which it receives its life forces."

Joly opines, "the key factor in making a good wine is to understand nature and help it - one becomes nature's assistant rather than `a wine maker'." I found my awareness shifting as Joly contends, "it is on the land, in the middle of his vines, that the wine-maker `makes' the wine."

I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing a stronger connectivity to his/her vines and wine.

Customer Review: More on Joly's pseudo science

This book is incredibly false in regards to some basic science. The states of matter are NOT Mineral, Liquid, Light (gas) and heat. They are solids, liquids, gases and plasma. This book incorrectly uses the term one sentence after another. Everything is made up on atoms and can be a solid, liquid or gas. Plasma is a little more sophicated. But let's take the 3. Water is a solid when ice, a liquid when at room temperature and gas when it evaporates or become steam with heat. Joly states water is almost mineral as a frozen solid and a "prisoner of matter." Water is matter, that's why they are the states of MATTER.

He says that light is an airy state. Does that mean dark places can not have air. Of course not. He also says with heat matter "disappears." Matter does not disappears it is just not visable to our eyes in some cases. I just can't get over how bad the science is. I don't even think I can trust the editors or publishers because I can't believe they put this out as non-fiction.

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