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http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Interview (part 2) with Denis Dubourdieu. Denis Dubourdieu is a wine consultant and wine maker, as well as a professor in oenology at the University of Bordeaux.

We talk with Denis Dubourdieu about the trend towards organic wine, organic farming in the vineyards. Denis emphasises that one should not only talk about organic (biological) viticulture! And organic farming has to evolve. For example, it is still allowed to use much copper, copper sulphate, in the soil, and it is not at all organic. It is a metal, mineral, that stays in the soil. Such things have to change. It is also important to use less chemical poisons, for example by using so called sexual confusion in the vineyards to fight the grape worm (vers de la grappe). The sexual confusion with pheromones in capsules makes it possible to dispense with much poison.

Denis Dubourdieu also talks about his own philosophy of making wine, emphasising the fruit and the freshness. Dubourdieu explains ...