Today we salut the multidimensional medicine of the vine with Barbara Gross of Cooper Mountain Vineyards!
Barbara is a visionary in organic, biodynamic, alternative viticulture. As a second generation, natural wine grower and purveyor, our guest has faced countless challenges on a daily and multi-generational scale. Her family has devoted the last 46 years to transform conventional vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley into thriving, biodiverse, regenerative ecosystems; specializing in the cultivation of Pinot Noir (a varietal of grape most sensitive to environmental stress and the fluctuations of climate change). Through it all, Barbara has emerged as a sort of wildly down to earth, renegade leader in the wine industry.
Tune in, pour yourself a glass of healing wine or tea and muse upon this Dionysian thought: could biodynamically farmed and alchemized wine help save our beloved Earth?
COVERED
- Barbara’s legacy of wine stewardship at Cooper Mountain Vineyards
- Organic + biodynamic certification processes
- Conscious Land Stewardship
- The art and science of Pinot Noir, a delicate and climate-sensitive varietal.
- How natural wines differ from conventional in both taste and their impact on personal & planetary health
- The role of agriculture in addressing climate change, with insights into carbon-neutral farming
- How organic, biodynamic vineyards are carbon sinkholes and help sequester up to 30% more carbon than conventional methods
- The importance of embracing cycles in farming and Life
- Why a Generational Mindset is needed
OFFERING
Enjoy 15% off all biodynamic wines + balsamic vinegars from www.coopermountainwine.com with the code SOUNDFOOD.
CONNECT
Guest Name: @coopermountainvineyards | coopermountainwine.com | @bsgross1
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MENTIONED
Sideways
Willamette Valley
AOC Wine
Common Ground Film
Kiss the Ground Film
Amrita Documentary
Alan Chadwick
The One-Straw Revolution
Cooper Mountain Wine Club
Cooper Mountain Vinegars
Cooper Mountain Tocai
Gary Synder
SIMILAR WAVELENGTH
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79: FEEDING TOMORROW with Oliver English
70: EARTH IS OUR COMMON GROUND with Josh and Rebecca Tickell
NOURISH
This podcast is nourished by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners:
COOPER MOUNTAIN WINE: enter SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all wines and aged balsamic vinegars from www.coopermountainwine.com
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MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com
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