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Overall, if you make a product and want to claim that it or its ingredients are organic, your final product probably needs to be certified. If you are not certified, you must not make any organic claim on the principal display panel or use the USDA organic seal anywhere on […]

American farms have changed drastically in the last three generations from the family based small businesses dependent on human energy to large scale factory farms highly dependent on fossil fuels.

Therefore, American and European organic winemaking standards allow for the addition of strictly regulated amounts of SO2. In the U.S., wines can contain up to 350ppm of sulfites. Organic winemaking standards, as adopted recently (12/00) by the USDA, limit the use of sulfites to 100ppm in all finished products.

Although, we love Champagne (oh so much!), it certainly isn’t the only choice when it comes to refreshing and delicious bubbly goodness that sings out of the glass.

“Contains sulfites” is a fairly off-putting statement on a bottle of wine that you hope to enjoy with a meal, gift to a friend, or share with a loved one.

Reasons the majority of people like wine is its taste, the relaxing effects, and the health benefits, while a few are dead-set against it since it is, after all, an alcoholic drink and some people do not condone the consumption of alcohol.

There is a lot of confusion out there regarding sulfites and what it means to make a “sulfite free” wine.In reality it’s nearly impossible for a wine to be sulfite free as they are a natural biproduct of the fermentation process.

Red wine is the only vice some health-conscious people will permit themselves—after all, since the early ’90s, the elixir has been touted as a health food.