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Sep 28, 2026 · 29:40
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com In 2020, Spain experienced one of the worst downy mildew outbreaks in modern history.…
Sep 21, 2026 · 40:16
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com What if the multi-year contraction in wine sales is a good thing? So much press and…
Sep 16, 2026 · 7:45
A prejudice-free re-telling of the evolutionary history, as well as the redacted wine history, of the world’s most popular grape. This is a free episode, but Beyond Organic Wine…
Sep 13, 2026 · 56:05
Katya, Domaine de Cassagnas - Vivan! Co-op founding member I’m incredibly inspired by this episode for multiple reasons. First, this is about a positive action, a proactive…
Sep 8, 2026 · 16:04
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode is first interview with a New Zealand winemaker, and I’m glad to finally…
Aug 30, 2026 · 1:07:45
My guests for this episode are Marta and Cristina of the the Porto Protocol , which is both a resource hub and community promoting climate action for the global wine ecosystem.…
Aug 26, 2026 · 48:54
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this incredible episode is Michael Cook. Michael is the Viticulture…
Aug 20, 2026 · 24:28
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode is Eric Mayer of Napachar , and this episode is all about…
Aug 13, 2026 · 1:43:41
My guest for this episode is Pierre Muller. Pierre is an agroforestry consultant and owner of AGECO in Catalonia with a wide range of experience and projects in multiple…
Aug 5, 2026 · 47:49
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com I want to say a very special thank you to everyone who subscribes and supports Beyond…
Aug 2, 2026 · 20:45
On July 22, 2026, Adam L. Huss of the Beyond Organic Wine podcast and Substack, with the support and cooperation of dozens of other wineries, wine sales professionals, and wine…
Jul 19, 2026 · 1:29:10
Matt Johnson Ph.D. is a wildlife ecologist, ornithologist, agroecologist, and a professor in the Department of Wildlife at Cal Poly Humboldt in Northern California. This episode…
Jul 15, 2026 · 53:28
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com I’ve been trying to make some strong arguments on Beyond Organic Wine for why…
Jul 5, 2026 · 1:41:24
The objective of this episode is to get vital information out to winegrowers everywhere about Pierce’s Disease, or Xylella fastidiosa (and you’ll get a whole lot more as well).…
Jun 30, 2026 · 26:09
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode it Autumn Stoscheck of Eve’s Cidery in beautiful Van Etten,…
Jun 25, 2026 · 2:13:29
“To care for what we know requires care for what we don’t, the world’s lives dark in the soil, dark in the dark…” “…Forbearance is the first care we give to what we do not know.…
Jun 19, 2026 · 10:07
What I want to say in this piece is urgent. It’s urgent because of the recent discovery of sharpshooters on grapevines at several Costco locations in Northern California, where…
Jun 15, 2026 · 1:21:26
My guest for this episode is Shannon Mayhew, Estate Sustainability Director for Brooks Winery in Oregon. Brooks is a B-corp, Demeter certified biodynamic, and regenerative winery…
Jun 6, 2026 · 2:17
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com Since there is very little knowledge about growing hybrid grapes in places where a…
Jun 1, 2026 · 20:13
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com I’m thrilled to announce that my first book is officially available for pre-order!…
May 25, 2026 · 2:09:07
A big thanks to our special sponsor for this episode: Shifting Gears Travel My guest for this episode is Tim Jordan, who is a co-founder of and winemaker and consultant for…
May 18, 2026 · 17:14
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode is Daniele Delaini who owns and farms and makes wine for…
May 11, 2026 · 56:47
As a younger man, Patrick Pierquet found the wild grape that became the Frontenac grapes (noir, gris, and blanc). He tells about his experiences discovering the wild parents of…
May 6, 2026 · 3:41
This month we, in California especially, will be inundated with reminders that 50 years ago this May a few pioneering California winemakers beat the French at their own game in a…
May 5, 2026 · 1:09:13
My guest for this episode is Joseph Wiens. With his wife, Jasmine, Joseph founded and makes wine for Lost Ranch Winery in Temecula Valley California. If you aren’t from Southern…
Apr 27, 2026 · 26:21
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode is Marc-André Selosse. He is a professor at the Musée…
Apr 20, 2026 · 40:06
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com Happy Earth Day! If you don’t know the history of Earth Day it’s worth checking out…
Apr 13, 2026 · 22:45
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode is Rebecca Sweet, owner of Buzz Cover Crop Seeds in Oregon.…
Apr 6, 2026 · 1:32:03
This episode features Adam Rack, the Co-founder of Revino , the company that is taking the lead in wine glass bottle re-use in the US. Based in Oregon, Revino has recently…
Mar 29, 2026 · 57:16
This episode features a conversation with Amy Wong, an attorney and the Policy & Program advocate with the Oregon Organic Coalition . As the former Executive Director for the…
Mar 24, 2026 · 18:53
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This is the last episode from Embracing Hybrid Grapes, so I’m inviting you to send me…
Mar 18, 2026 · 13:56
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com Christopher Renfro – Adam Tolmach Hey welcome to Beyond Organic Wine, I’m Adam Huss,…
Mar 16, 2026 · 57:57
My guest for this episode is Terah Bajjalieh. Terah is a California winemaker, sommelier, and founder of Terah Wine Co ., crafting intentional wines that champion…
Mar 12, 2026 · 11:24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features the Winemaking with Hybrid Grapes panel from the Embracing…
Mar 9, 2026 · 26:28
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features Ron Lane, who retired as Superintendent of Agriculture for the…
Mar 4, 2026 · 7:45
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features Deirdre Heekin’s keynote speech at Embracing Hybrid Grapes.…
Mar 2, 2026 · 10:19
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features audio from the Embracing Hybrid Grapes Conference that took…
Feb 25, 2026 · 6:39
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features the audio from the first panel at the Embracing Hybrid Grapes…
Feb 22, 2026 · 52:20
Johannes Pinchbeck is a Canadian grape breeder who lives north of Edmonton, Alberta and develops grapes that can take sub-arctic cold and still be productive. The extremity of…
Feb 18, 2026 · 8:09
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com Elaine Chukan Brown is a gifted writer, speaker, and global wine educator, as well as…
Feb 15, 2026 · 34:10
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features Will Bucklin of Bucklin Old Hill Ranch . Will is the caretaker…
Feb 12, 2026 · 1:15
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com Hey, this is Beyond Organic Wine, and this episode features audio from the Embracing…
Feb 10, 2026 · 12:26
“I want to thank you for what you said. I’ve felt excluded from wine, and I didn’t understand why. And what you said helped me to see why I felt that way, and now I feel like I…
Feb 9, 2026 · 23:20
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features Zach Geballe of the VinePair Podcast . Zach’s experience as a…
Feb 2, 2026 · 1:33
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com On January 26, 2026, I and Elodie Oliver produced a historic conference at UC Davis…
Feb 1, 2026 · 10:26
Last Monday Elodie Oliver and I hosted a sell-out crowd (we had to add extra seats!) of winegrowers, winemakers, wine sellers, grape breeders, wine industry leaders, wine press,…
Jan 19, 2026 · 47:08
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com This episode features Derrick Vogel, a grape grower in northern Michigan, and the…
Jan 13, 2026 · 41:57
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com The full schedule for Embracing Hybrid Grapes in California on January 26th at UC…
Jan 6, 2026 · 1:01:07
I had such a great time on my first trip and was so impressed by the wines that I went back to Quebec for a second trip and discovered another fantastic producer who has been…
Dec 29, 2025 · 4:48
The vast majority of champagnes we buy and drink in the US are over-priced luxury brands made of cheap materials, harmful farming practices, and at times exploitive labor. We get…
Dec 23, 2025 · 19:09
Reflections on some of the big questions of 2025, and recommendations of some of my favorite books from 2025. An end of year wish for you and your wine, and a big thank you to…
Dec 14, 2025 · 1:28:58
What if I told you that you could take a piece of degraded, marginal land with 3.5 pH soils and turn it into an agricultural production system with five times the productivity of…
Dec 8, 2025 · 1:28:16
My guest for this episode is Nika Carlson of Greenpoint Cidery in Hudson, New York. There are some unique and wonderful aspects of what Nika does that make this conversation fun…
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:07:57
My guest for this episode is Joseph Brinkley. Joseph is the Senior Director of Regenerative Organic Farming at Bonterra . He oversees farming of Bonterra’s 800+ acres of estate…
Nov 26, 2025 · 26:54
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guests for this episode are Julia and Alex Alvarez-Perez of Usonia Wine in the…
Nov 17, 2025 · 1:32:34
My guest for this episode is Franz Weninger of organic and biodynamic certified Weingut Weninger in Horitschon, Austria… and you, dear listener, are in for a treat. Franz is a…
Nov 9, 2025 · 1:06:21
My guest for this episode is George Gale. George has led a double life. On the surface, George presented a public façade as a philosopher of science, American historian,…
Oct 29, 2025 · 1:42:56
My guest is Rueben Lange of Amiti in Oregon FromAmiti.com . Rueben first worked a harvest in 2016, but he has packed in something like 12 harvests since then by bouncing between…
Oct 21, 2025 · 1:11:33
My guest for this episode is Michael Völker, one of the Zwei Natur Kinder in Germany. Michael and Melanie Drese spent many years working in other fields, traveling the world and.…
Oct 13, 2025 · 1:00:27
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode is Harold Langlais, who works as Marketing Director for and…
Oct 6, 2025 · 1:33:25
My guest for this episode is Alder Yarrow. Alder writes and does everything for the blog Vinography, and I’ve been receiving Alder’s weekly email for several years. He gives a…
Sep 28, 2025 · 10:10
Yesterday I spent the afternoon editing Wikipedia entries about hybrid grapes because they were either factually wrong, omitted important and relevant information, or pushed…
Sep 21, 2025 · 23:23
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com “The earth is alive. The earth is intelligent. The earth is having a crisis because…
Sep 14, 2025 · 1:24:01
My guest for this episode is Lore McSpadden-Walker. Lore (they/them) is an embodiment navigator and neuro-spicy hedge witch who has dedicated their work towards helping people…
Sep 8, 2025 · 1:47:58
The last episode featured a 110 acre biodynamic chateau in one of Washington state’s famed AVAs. This episode features a 1 acre organic and regenerative vineyard of hybrids and…
Aug 25, 2025 · 1:42:12
Let’s take a trip to the state of Washington in the US. You know Washington… it’s that place where it rains so much on the coast that vampires can live there year round. It’s a…
Aug 17, 2025 · 40:54
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com My guest for this episode is Pascal Baudar. For many of you he needs no formal…
Aug 11, 2025 · 9:08
What seeds are you sending out into the world with your wine? What systems, or economies, are you building with the energy you exchange with the plants? Absent the physical…
Aug 3, 2025 · 1:28:11
"What do you think, you higher men? Am I a prophet? A dreamer? A drunkard? An interpreter of dreams? A midnight bell? A drop of dew? An odour and scent of eternity? Do you not…
Jul 28, 2025 · 1:05:58
My guest for this episode is the matriarch of a Mendocino winery that has been organic since before there was organic certification. Martha Barra runs Barra of Mendocino which…
Jul 21, 2025 · 1:23:19
Sunny Hodge is the owner of wine bars Diogenes the Dog in Elephant & Castle and Battersea-based aspen & meursault. Known for challenging the status quo, Sunny has built a…
Jul 14, 2025 · 1:22:13
This episode is the last of the Quebec series, and it’s such a great one to end with… because it makes me miss Quebec and want to go back for a visit again as soon as possible.…
Jul 7, 2025 · 1:14:16
My guest for this episode is Simon Naud of Vignoble La Bauge. La Bauge is the first Canadian vineyard to be Regenerative Organic Certified by the Regenerative Organic Alliance.…
Jun 30, 2025 · 1:22:41
My guest for this episode is Michael Marler who, with his partner Véronique Hupin, owns and farms and makes wine as Vignoble Les Pervenches in Quebec and has been doing this for…
Jun 23, 2025 · 1:03:00
I’m excited to introduce another incredible and relatively new Quebec winery, Domaine Oak Hill… and I love that it was named for a tree, and I met that tree and it is incredible……
Jun 16, 2025 · 1:40:05
I’m so excited to bring you this special series on Quebec wine over the next few weeks, and I think you’ll soon realize why. Quebec might be 25 years ahead of most of the wine…
Jun 9, 2025 · 1:28:29
My guest is Laura Barrett, and she’s been the winemaker at Clif Family winery in Napa for over 10 years. I met Laura when she was on a panel I moderated for Napa Green earlier…
May 26, 2025 · 1:20:06
Christian Cain does contract grazing for vineyards and orchards in Northern California with sheep and goats with his company Perennial Grazing. “We are members of natural…
May 19, 2025 · 1:33:19
This is part 2 of my interview the Dan Rinke of Art + Science. We get into even more specifics of how he makes his holistic farm of vines and trees and animals work with very…
May 5, 2025 · 58:52
This episode is part 1 of a two part episode with Dan Rinke of Art + Science Cidery and Winery in Oregon. The conversation was interrupted by technical difficulties after about…
Apr 28, 2025 · 1:44:31
My guest for this episode is Fritz Westover. Fritz, like me, is originally a fellow Pennsylvanian, and he’s going on 3 decades of learning about, working with, and teaching about…
Apr 15, 2025 · 1:17:19
My guest for this episode is Rob Schultz. Rob is the vineyard manager for Lemelson Vineyards in Oregon, and farms 130 acres of organic vineyards in the Willamette Valley.…
Apr 7, 2025 · 1:10:29
My guest for this episode is Elaine Chukan Brown. Elaine is a writer, speaker, wine educator, and now author of the book The Wines of California. Elaine has been a contributor,…
Apr 1, 2025 · 1:22:05
In this episode I interview Wendy McNabb, the current owner with her husband, of Carolina Heritage Vineyards, one of only four certified organic wineries on the entire East Coast…
Mar 24, 2025 · 1:24:04
I’ve known about Botanist & Barrel and DeFi Wines for a couple years, and even visited them in Asheville, North Carolina. They introduced me to both Muscadine grapes and Paw-paws…
Mar 17, 2025 · 1:24:36
Tommy Fenster is a scientist who studies agroecological systems, but specifically for the last few years he’s been focused on gathering data from dozens of vineyards around…
Mar 11, 2025 · 1:56:37
Gideon Beinstock started Clos Saron with Saron Rice in 1999 as an attempt to purely and distinctively express the terroir of their home in the Sierra Foothill outside of Oregon…
Mar 4, 2025 · 1:51:28
This fun episode is a conversation with Domenico Musumeci, co-owner of Ca’Musu and Wine Pirati, with his wife Elise. They live and farm wine in Michigan, and Mimmo talks us…
Feb 24, 2025 · 1:09:53
My guest for this episode is Caine Thompson, head of sustainability for O’Neill Vintners. Caine has initiated and oversees the largest side-by-side trial of regenerative organic…
Feb 18, 2025 · 57:31
My guest for this episode makes wine from flowers. Her name is Aaliyah Nitoto and her winery is called Free Range Flower Winery. She’s based out of Oakland, California, so she…
Feb 10, 2025 · 1:20:17
This episode digs into several varieties of hybrid grapes being grown in New Hampshire by the team that makes up NOK Vino. I speak with Nico Kimberly, the founder of NOK Vino,…
Feb 3, 2025 · 1:24:23
Maybe you took a break from alcohol this January and you don't want to go back to drinking wines made within the dominant paradigm. Maybe you'd like to try something truly…
Jan 27, 2025 · 1:21:26
Becky Sykes is the Program Director of the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation, and she’s gives us a great introduction to many of the resources and opportunities available to…
Jan 15, 2025 · 1:37:51
Bruce Reisch joined the faculty of Cornell University in New York in 1980 and spent the last 40 years specializing in developing new grape cultivars as well as new grape breeding…
Jan 6, 2025 · 15:31
Behind the ecological devastation caused by conventional, industrial viticulture and agriculture in general are ideas of disconnection and individualism, which lead to extraction…
Dec 16, 2024 · 1:33:41
My guest for this episode is Daniel Callan, the cellar man behind Slamdance Koöperatieve. Daniel pointed out to me recently that I've been too focused on winegrowing. I had to…
Dec 2, 2024 · 1:03:15
This episode features a conversation with Adam Tolmach of Ojai Vineyards, and it’s located not too far from Los Angeles in distance. Adam Tolmach lost his estate vineyard a…
Nov 25, 2024 · 51:08
My guest for this episode grows and makes wine on one of the most popular island vacation spots in the Mediterranean Sea: Mallorca. His name is Tomeu Llabrés, and his winery is…
Nov 18, 2024 · 1:07
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beyondorganicwine.substack.com What does an ecological approach to winegrowing and wine making look like? This…
Nov 11, 2024 · 1:36:23
This episode is a conversation I got to have with Ariana Ross and James Sligh. Ariana you may remember from an earlier episode in which I talked to her about her treatise, Wine’s…
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