It’s easy to poke fun at biodynamics as the slightly hippy cousin of organic farming. Yet a rising number of wineries, Romanée-Conti, Château Palmer and Louis Roederer to name a few high-profile examples, have embraced organics more radical cousin.

Famously hard to define. Hugh Johnson once suggested that a fine wine is a wine that you want to talk about. We agree.

We take a moment to consider the hot topic of vegan wine, starting with what makes a grape-based product non-vegan in the first place.

Jamie Goode tells the story of how a backwater, best known for farming cereals, became the source of a South African wine revolution.