Whatever reservations one may have about organic viticulture and the way it is promoted it must be a more sane approach than the use of 100% weedkiller destroying a vineyard's biodiversity

This week there are two complementary posts on Les 5 du Vin on organic wine. Firstly on Monday David Cobbold wrote about what annoyed him about organic wine. Then, today, Michel Smith posed 15 questions on organic wine here.

 My post today on the Les 5 du Vin blog features some irreplaceable bottles drunk over the weekend including the 1985 Chave Hermitage above.

Yesterday David Cobbold complained about the very poor selection of wine available at a café in Bordeaux station.

 

Pierre-Jacques Druet and Marc Vanhellemont celebrate the first anniversary of the conception

Our cooperative blog Les 5 du Vin was conceived during lunch in the press room over a bottle of Pierre-Jacques Druet's rosé (2008 vintage) at last year's Salon on Tuesday 2nd February 2010. Les 5 du Vin's gestation was short with the first post on the 6th. For comments on the 2009 rosé see here.