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Home / Archives for Biodynamic Wine

Bubble Bash – December 11th

November 17, 2016 by The Natural Grocery Company

Come taste SPARKLING WINE and stock up for the holidays and New Year’s Eve!
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Tagged With: Biodynamic Wine, In Store Sampling, Sustainable Production, Wine, Wine Tasting

Why Drive to Napa?

September 28, 2016 by WineAndBeer

Taste 30 small production wines at the ANNEX for just $10!

We are hosting our 5th bi-annual Grand Wine Tasting and Price Crush Wine Sale. On Sunday, October 9th from 2 to 5pm come to the Prepared Food Annex (10387 San Pablo Avenue) to taste 30 wines by artisan producers. The ticket price for the event is $10. This may be the most affordable wine tasting event in the Bay Area!

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Annex Wine & Beer handpicks products to bring you clean, natural, sustainably-produced wines, a large number of which are certified organic and biodynamic.

If you would like to read more about us and other natural wine shops in the East Bay, check out this article.

Filed Under: Annex, Blog, Events, Special Events, Wine Spotlight, Wine Words and Beer Notes Tagged With: Biodynamic Wine, Dry-Farmed Wine, Grand Wine Tasting, Natural Wine, Organic Wine, Price Crush, Sustainable Wine, Wine Sale, Wine Tasting

Dry Farming

August 10, 2016 by The Natural Grocery Company

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Every summer our customers and employees anxiously await the arrival of the best tasting tomatoes we have all year. The Dry Farmed Early Girl. But what is dry farming and why do these tomatoes taste so much better than the others? Dry farmed tomatoes are planted during the last rains of spring and never watered again. Their root systems go deep (up to 30 feet) into rich organic earth to get water. This extensive root system also picks up extra minerals, thus creating a very flavorful tomato. Dry farming is all about conserving and retaining soil moisture to support the crops without supplemental irrigation. A drawback is that dry farming creates smaller yields to those crops grown using irrigation, but the flavors can’t be beat! Dry farmed tomatoes are usually smaller because the plant spends a lot of it’s growth potential on it’s root system. This causes the plant to produce an intensely flavored, meaty tomato.

There are also environmental benefits to dry farming. Dry-farmed growers are reducing water use by not irrigating. Further, as water resources in California become scarcer and more strictly regulated, growers will also find themselves exempt from these water regulations, since they are not using irrigation water, or, in most cases, water for frost protection. Dry farming is the way crops were grown in the United States more than 100 years ago. Tomatoes are also not the only crop that are dry farmed. Right now we have local Dry farmed Macintosh apples from Watsonville and a great selection of dry farmed wines at the Annex! Among these are 3 wines from Yamakiri Vineyards here in California. Papillion de Nuit, a Syrah, is grown on the Mendocino ridge. Yamakiri Sauvignon Blanc is grown in the Yorkville Highlands and the Yamakiri Rose is grown in the Anderson Valley. There is also a dry farmed, Biodynamic wine at the Annex right now. Enrique Mendoza’s La Tremenda is grown in Alicante, Spain.

Come on down to The Natural Grocery Company and stock up on all of our dry farmed goodness! Remember, dry farming = great flavors!

Yamakiri Wines

By, Casey Goode, ECNG Produce Manager

Filed Under: Annex, Blog, El Cerrito Store, Organic farming, Produce Notes, Stores_both, Sustainability Tagged With: Biodynamic Wine, Bodegas Mendoza, Dry Farmed Wines, Dry Farming, Early Girl Tomatoes, Environmentally Friendly Farming, Local Produce, Macintosh Apples, Organic Produce, Spanish Wine, Summer, Summer Bounty, Summer Produce, Tomatoes, Yamakiri

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EL CERRITO STORE
10367 San Pablo Ave.
(510) 526-1155
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