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Figuring out which (if any) organic wine to buy can feel like navigating dawn with a hangover.
  • Exactly, sulfites occur naturally

    And far and few between is the person who suddenly develops an allergic reaction to them in normal concentrations. Moreover it will spoil faster so caveat emptor. Maybe you'd be happier with a rum.

    Anyway the real earth mother story is the cork. EU regs will put an end to corks made out of, well, cork, soon. The trees are endangered but the EU is mostly worried about percolation of bacteria and infectious diseases, because you know, for the last 10,000 years of wine making that's been a huge problem.