LES VINS PIROUETTES
Alsace, France
Les Vins Pirouettes is a wine collective from Alsace. The label brings together about twenty independent Alsatian winegrowers committed to organic farming or a biodynamic approach. Each winemaker grows the grapes on their land and vinifies the wine in their cellar.
QUICK FACTS
ESTABLISHMENT
2009
AREA
Alsace
THE TEAM
Organic independent winegrowers, oenologists and sommeliers combine their know-how to cultivate, vinify and market sulphite-free wines, full of emotion and surprise.
LES VINS PIROUETTES' LOCATION
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Les Vins Pirouettes Ultra Violet de David 2020
Regular price HK$300.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Les Vins Pirouettes Plasma de Raphael 2019
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Les Vins Pirouettes Ultra Violet de David 2021
Regular price HK$280.00Regular priceUnit price / per -
Les Vins Pirouettes Bluemarawa de Jean Paul 2019
Regular price HK$340.00Regular priceUnit price / per
Organic, Biodynamic and Natural wine. What’s the difference?
To understand this concept and its various ramifications, it is necessary to keep something clear in mind: before the 20th century and the spreading of affordable synthetic fertilisers, all farming was organic. When the shift to the use of synthetics and pesticides happened, it became necessary to diversify traditional organic farming from the new modern farming.
ORGANIC WINE
Simply put, organic farming forbids the use of synthetic fertilisers, synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified organisms. The basic requirements are generally specific and engage the farmers not to use any chemical fertilisers and other synthetic products in the vineyard. It does not prevent the vintner from using the conventional winemaking process after harvesting.
BIODYNAMIC WINE
Let’s take organic farming one step further: Biodynamic. The creator of this agricultural system is the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who developed the principles of biodynamics in a series of lectures given in 1924 in Germany. Here lies the foundation of true organic wines, with a strict limit in the use of additives, stringent requirements and at the end obtaining a biodynamic certification.
NATURAL WINE
The previous definitions are usually, and rightfully, associated with it, because most natural wine is also organic and/or biodynamic. But not vice versa!
Natural wine is wine in its purest form, simply described as nothing added, nothing taken away, just grapes fermented. No manipulation whatsoever, minimal intervention both in the vineyards and in the winery. Healthy grapes, natural yeast and natural fermentation, with no filtration nor fining. Sounds easy, right? However, making natural wine is unforgiving and it requires a bigger amount of work than conventional wine. To this day, natural wine has no certification yet.