Organic wine - an overview

The organic food debate hit the front pages yetprocess.
again in the UK last week. Curiously, howeverTo further complicate matters, the Australians
organic winemaking doesn't seems to occupy theand the Americans differentiate between "wine
public's attention. So what is it, where can you getmade from organically grown grapes", to which
it, and is it better than conventionally made wine?sulfur has been added, and "organic" wine, to
Oddly perhaps, the term "organic wine" is onlywhich no sulfur has been added. In these countries
legally defined in Australia and America. It'sless than 1% of wine produced from organic
generally used to denote wine made from grapesgrapes is labelled as organic wine (as not adding
produced by organic viticulture, without thesulfur to the wine leads to bacterial spoilage
addition of sulfur dioxide during the winemakingproblems).